"I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump."

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Source : Lisa Lutz (2008). “Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

Lisa Lutz

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“We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.”

Source : David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than Iâ€™ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, Iâ€™ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.”
“An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he canâ€™t find anything worth doing.”
“For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed...”
“For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.”

Source : "The ideas interview: Nick Bostrom" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2006.
“Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.”
“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”
“But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films.”

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