"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"

-- Edward Bond

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“Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.”
“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.”
“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”
“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”
“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.”
“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”

Source : P. N. Elrod, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L. A. Banks, Jim Butcher (2010). “My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding”, p.141, Macmillan
“Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.”
“You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.9, New Society Publishers

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