"I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #White Quotes

“Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.”
“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...”
“Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.”
“Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.”
“When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.”
“I like things to be orderly.”
“Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.”

Source : August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”
“I'm never going to run this again.”

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