"We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?"

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Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

Arthur Machen

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“The best teams play for each other, not with each other”
“If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.”
“But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.
“I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.”
“That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.92, Routledge
“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.”

Source : Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK
“Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.”
“I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.”

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