"The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare."

-- Daniel Hannan

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“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.”
“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”

Source : Interview with Mike Wallace, November 4, 1958.
“I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.”
“My subject is war, and the pity of war.”
“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.”
“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”

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