"The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was born and raised in Rochester - whether it's Teju Cole, or Rudresh Mahanthappa, or Himanshu Suri, or Miya Masaoka, or Barack Obama, we all have that in common. And that's different from being descended from enslaved African captives. I am very conscious of that difference, and conscious of how easy it is to forget about it. I find myself always coming up against that."

-- Vijay Iyer

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“There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mindâ€™s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until youâ€™re so desperate to be rid of them that youâ€™ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey
“I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?”
“Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.”
“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”

Source : "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears”

Source : "Exclusive! Rep. John Culberson". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2005.
“No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.”
“I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.”

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