"Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves."

-- Duke Ellington

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“But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.”
“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1981). “The Last Defender of Camelot”, Pocket
“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2010). “The Loser: A Novel”, p.189, Vintage
“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.”
“...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars...”

Source : John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”
“I really do think Trump's election comes down to respect. It comes down to being gracious. It comes down to really showing compassion for the problems of the black and Latino communities. And I really hope that Donald Trump takes the ball that's in his court and tries to go after those voters, tries to show some compassion, and really offers them something substantive to get excited about Republican and conservative policy.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”

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