"Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress."

-- Chester Himes

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“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.”
“Start early – the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributing…that was a big mistake.”
“Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.”
“So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.”

Source : 1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader of These Sonnets'.
“We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.”
“India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.”
“What we fear we often rage against.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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