"This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do"

-- Dalton Trumbo

#Brother Quotes #Kings Quotes #Years Quotes

“It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you â€“ that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.”

Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.21, Penguin
“No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.”
“Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.”
“Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”
“We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.”
“Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.”
“I love art. It is uplifting.”
“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”

Source : Juan Carlos Onetti (1976). “A brief life”, Viking Press

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