"In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony."

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Source : Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

Harlan Ellison

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“not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?”
“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”
“I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all day.”

Source : "Brandon T. Jackson Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON". Interview, collider.com. February 17, 2011.
“I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.”
“The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.”
“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.”
“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”
“Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.”

Source : John Bunyan, George Burder (1821). “The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, Or The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul”, p.13

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