"Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered."

-- Thomas Sowell

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“If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.”
“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.”

Source : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.
“I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.”
“The fastest way to travel is to be there already.”
“There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.101, Grove Press
“But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.”
“All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?”
“The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.”

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