"Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling."

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Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.180, Penguin UK

C. L. R. James

#Country Quotes #Kings Quotes #Long Quotes

“I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.”

Source : "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.
“Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.”

Source : "Aborting America". Book by Bernard Nathanson and Richard Ostling, 1979.
“Iâ€™ve been dead for seven years, thatâ€™s as warm as they get.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.”
“I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.”
“Thereâ€™s a writer for you,â€ he said. â€œKnows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.â€ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersâ€”because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerâ€”still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers arenâ€™t people exactly. Or, if theyâ€™re any good, theyâ€™re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. Itâ€™s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingâ€”only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
“Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something,”

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