"Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe."

-- Jill McCorkle

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“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”

Source : "Revised Historiography". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, April 1980.
“Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.”

Source : Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition
“I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society â€” because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.”
“David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.”
“On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.”
“There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
“It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.”

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