"Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper."

-- John Oliver

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“How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom”
“I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.”
“Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.315, Pan Macmillan
“The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.”
“Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.”
“Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.”
“For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.”
“Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.”

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