"Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake."

-- Walter Benjamin

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“These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.”

Source : Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison (2003). “The Best American Short Stories 2003”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.”
“The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.”
“We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,”
“I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.”
“The fox changes his skin but not his habits.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Vespasianus", 16), 1922.
“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
“The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.”

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