"Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own goodâ€”only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?"

-- Ralph Ellison

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“The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.”
“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.”

Source : "Shadowlands". Biography, Drama, Romance, 1994.
“A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.”

Source : 'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 30.
“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan
“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.18, Verso
“A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.”

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
“Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have.”

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