"The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it."

-- Lauren Beukes

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“My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.”
“Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.”
“I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.”
“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”
“It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.”

Source : "Why the Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto" by Michael Specter, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2013.
“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.”
“A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.”
“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

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