"It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow."

-- Anthony Daniels

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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
“People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.”
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafÃ©s where they like me and cafÃ©s where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
“... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.”
“The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.9
“We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.”
“Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.”

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