"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

-- Aristotle

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“While I do not have a boyfriend, I do have a friend who is homosexual and I once asked him "Do you ever think about having sex with me because you are gay?" to which he replied "Do you ever think about having sex with Rosie O'Donnell because you are straight? Same thing.”

Source : David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.116, Penguin
“I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.”

Source : Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber
“The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shapeâ€”a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.”
“It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991”
“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”
“If you take the time away, you take the character away.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“There is no such thing as an ugly woman.”
“When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.”

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