"I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

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“It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
“What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.”
“... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does.”
“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”
“Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.180, Open Road Media
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
“I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.”

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