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“I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.”
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“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing
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“Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.”
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“I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.”
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“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.”
Source : 1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.
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“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.”
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“But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.”
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“Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.”
Source : Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.111, Macmillan