"Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you donâ€™t validate. Indulge what you donâ€™t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!"

-- Deena Metzger

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“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.”
“mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.”
“It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.”
“Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.”
“Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.”
“What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.”

Source : "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.
“Trees have roots, Jews have legs.”
“The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.”

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