"Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney."

-- George Jean Nathan

“Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”
“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.”
“It also will come through natural forces, as a lot of intense storms also will be brewing. There's a lot for us to get caught up into if we choose, but they are warning us not to get caught up in it. It's simply a mirror of the times that we don't necessarily have to respond to and react to from within.”
“Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.”
“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
“There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .”
“One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.”
“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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