"We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Masters Quotes

“I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.”
“In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.”
“The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.”
“Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.”
“I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.”

Source : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.
“It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!”
“When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”
“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”

Source : "The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism" by Susie Linfield, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2012.

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