"The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them."

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Source : Joanna Russ (1980). “On Strike Against God”, Crossing Pr

Joanna Russ

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“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”
“For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.”
“But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.”
“I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.”
“One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.”

Source : Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.137, Vintage
“I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.”
“We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.”
“Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.”

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