"Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate."

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Source : JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”

John D. MacDonald

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“Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.”
“In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency”
“In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.”
“A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get from that, but actually tell you a broader story. I think it's a noble idea that it's cathartic to open a vein for everybody to see, but ultimately, you're just getting blood everywhere and making a mess. I like the idea that there are deeper and more meaningful things to talk about than your own misery. But at the same time, there's something really interesting about skirting that line and making it seem like you're doing that.”

Source : "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.
“A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.”
“We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.”

Source : Source: www.learntoquestion.com
“Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.”

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin
“For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.”

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