"If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom."

-- Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

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“To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.”
“One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.”
“My problems aren't so different from anybody else.”
“It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.”
“I never watched 'Harper's Island.'”
“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.â€â€¢ General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa â€œAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
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“I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.”

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