"This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

#Long Quotes #May Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.”

Source : "Concerning Women". Independent, October 21, 1869.
“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”

Source : P. N. Elrod, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L. A. Banks, Jim Butcher (2010). “My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding”, p.141, Macmillan
“Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.”
“I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.”
“As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.”
“We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles”
“Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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