"Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism ."

-- Paul Robeson

#Gun Quotes #Order Quotes #White Quotes

“Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.”
“Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.”

Source : 'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1
“I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.”
“The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful â€¦ to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.”
“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
“I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to meâ€•a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”
“When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.”
“In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.”

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