"I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for."

-- Tom Wolfe

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“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”
“Speed has become an important element of strategy.”
“Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.”
“Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.”

Source : Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”
“I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.”
“This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”

Source : "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.
“Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?”

Source : Isaac Watts (1831). “The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts”

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