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“When a society faces reorganization along radical lines, the first storm-signals will always come from the deserters from the party yielding ground.  It has never been slaves who have begun successful struggles against slavery; the deserters from the feudal state were the individuals who a hundred and fifty years ago, laid the ideological foundation for the middle-class revolt.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks

“It will always hold true that the under class will not be stirred into action until after the best minds within the upper class have perceived that the latter is no longer able to manage its own tasks.  With the first signs of such weakness, the superseding class rises like a tidal wave.  A society erected upon a class system falls when its structure has been analyzed and become understood.  The middle-class social democrats wished to develop into a bourgeois state; now they have paid in blood for their lack of vision.”
― Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Covers His Tracks

“find a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirming that home-cooked meals actually make people feel better than indulgent meals eaten at a restaurant.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

“Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else (even if it was written and published last week in your home town); and what makes the novel available to its readers is not shared values or beliefs or experiences but the human capacity to conjure new worlds in the imagination. A fully realized novel provides readers with everything they need for their imaginations to go to work.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions