"Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control."

-- Joan Didion

#Literature Quotes #Information Quotes #Working It Quotes

“There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.”

Source : "Allen West: Liberals fear conservative blacks like me". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2013.
“I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.”

Source : Republican News, December 16, 1978.
“You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.”
“Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.”
“My writing isnâ€™t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.”
“Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.”
“...we have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that while mitigating and adapting to climate change. And we have but 21 years to do it”
“Nothing is more real than nothing.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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