"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Silence is safer than speech.”
“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”
“I always have admired what Bill Cunningham does, his body of work. I think it's a really important, seminal body of work. I think Bill celebrates creativity and self-expression. So it's really a lot of different kind of threads, all through the lens of Bill Cunningham.”
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”
“I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.”
“My words, my writing, my actionsâ€”these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1999). “The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir”
“People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”

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