"The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you."

--

Malorie Blackman

“It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.”
“After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.”
“When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious”
“I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.”
“Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.”

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