"As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future."

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Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

Alison Lurie

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“I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions
“There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.”

Source : "Eric Roberson Interview – 'Tigallerro' Album with Phonte, Sol Village Show, Next Project". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. August 23, 2016.
“I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.”
“Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.”
“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”

Source : FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Apr 20, 2012
“Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.168
“Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.”
“I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”

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