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Ray Bradbury

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."

-- Ray Bradbury

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“Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Source : George Plimpton (1967). “Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews”
“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical sufferingâ€”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three oâ€™clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesnâ€™t workâ€”and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three oâ€™clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Beautiful eyes are those that show the beautiful thoughts that burn below.”

Source : "Ellen P. Allerton's Walls of Corn, and Other Poems".
“I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.”
“Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different countries have a wide range of responsibilities. On rural routes in Scandinavia, for example, you might find the driver selling you the ticket as well as operating the doors, helping disabled passengers, handling parcels and driving the train.”
“I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.”
“But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.”
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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