"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."

-- Aleister Crowley

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“I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.”
“A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.”
“Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?”
“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doâ€”itâ€™s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.”
“I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.”
“Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.”
“Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.”

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