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—Dylan Thomas, 1936
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The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherA functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765