"The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people."

-- Tod Goldberg

#War Quotes #Hero Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.”
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
“Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.”
“Believe in the impossible, for then you will find it possible.”
“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”
“Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
“Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.”

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