"...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow."

-- Zadie Smith

“I always wanted to be an actor.”
“Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.”
“Don't hate me because I'm fabulous”
“You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.”
“When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.”
“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.”
“Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.”
“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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