"Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb."

-- Ken Kalfus

#Appreciation Quotes #Rip Quotes #Touching Quotes

“I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's never enough time to do nothing!”
“The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.379
“I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.”
“I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.”
“Don't be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams.”
“It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.”
“The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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