"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

-- Thomas Paine

#Pain Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.”
“I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.”
“It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.”
“We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freakâ€™s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.”

Source : Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.”
“A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought”
“I like being liked, who doesnâ€™t? But I love being hated.”
“My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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