"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

-- Ezra Pound

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“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.”

Source : "A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education", Vol. I by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by W. Hooper, 1777.
“Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness.”
“Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.”
“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
“As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.”

Source : Joan Nestle (1987). “A restricted country: essays and short stories”
“Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.”
“A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.”
“So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.”

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