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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”
― Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

“I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.”
― Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
― Wilhelm Reich

“Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.”
― Paul Gallico

“Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.”
― Chelsey Minnis

“I will tell you what is poetry...

It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit...”
― Chelsey Minnis, Bad Bad

“He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.”
― Charles Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
― Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

“There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.”
― Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

“Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?