"Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again."

-- Anne Rice

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“Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.”
“I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.”
“It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.”
“I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.”
“I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.”

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“The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.”
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber

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