"The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning."

-- Cormac McCarthy

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“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.”
“Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.”
“The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.”
“Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.”
“In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, donâ€™t do that, or I believe, I donâ€™t believe.”

Source : "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.
“You want ass? The cash is first. You got dead presidents, baby, I got a hearse in my purse.”
“The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category..”

Source : "Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 11, 2013.
“On current form, both teams will probably lose.”

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