"revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort ..."

-- Freya Stark

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“To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.”
“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin
“I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.”

Source : Interview with Steve Sailah, www.abc.net.au. June 2, 2000.
“Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.”

Source : Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.
“It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.”
“Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.”
“If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.”

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