"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."

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Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1971). “Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, p.60, Manchester University Press

Eric Hobsbawm

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“Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.”

Source : "'I'm available!' Peter Crouch offers to promote the return of FIFA Street in latest hilarious tweet" by Richard Innes, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2017.
“Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.”
“Balance is a tricky thing. I love my work and that helps. And I work a lot. So I spend a fair amount of time trying to make sure I'm taking time off, exercising, meditating and things like that. I also have a powerful support team (including my partner, Kelley) to keep me grounded. I don't always feel like I have the balance I want, but I have awareness about it, which I think is key.”
“When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.”
“If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
“It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.”
“Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Coma”, p.135, Penguin
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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