"Reading brings us unknown friends"

-- Honore de Balzac

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.”
“Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.”
“I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.”
“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers
“It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.”
“I want to have a family and teach them the way to live their lives, pretty much the way I was raised, with a lot of love and the Lord. I want them to stay off the streets, and to have goals and dreams.”
“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

Source : Thierry de Duve, Clement Greenberg (1996). “Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg”, Dis Voir Editions
“Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'”

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