"Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state"

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Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

Matthew Woodring Stover

#Sacrifice Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.”
“Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.”
“Real communication happens when people feel safe.”
“There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.”
“The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.”
“Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.”
“the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.”
“when one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove ...”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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