"Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be."

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Source : "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

Arabella Weir

#Despotism Quotes

“There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.”
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
“We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.66, B&H Publishing Group
“All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.”
“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...”
“There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.”
“Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.”

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