"...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will."

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Anthony Burgess

#Believe Quotes #Government Quotes #Free Will Quotes

“Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.”

Source : "Fresh". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2009.
“There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.”
“If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.”
“Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.”
“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.”

Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA
“I don't think there's a problem with dating somebody outside of your race, as long as you're doing it because you want to be with that person. Everybody tells you what you should do when you're dating, but if you follow your heart, it usually works out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.”
“It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.”

Source : "Derek Mahon, The Art of Poetry No. 82". Interview with Eamonn Grennan, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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