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Sinclair Lewis
“Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word—just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours—not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini—like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days—and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!”
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

Charles Mackay
“During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. Prophecies of all sorts are rife on such occasions, and are readily believed, whether for good or evil. During the great plague, which ravaged all Europe, between the years 1345 and 1350, it was generally considered that the end of the world was at hand. Pretended prophets were to be found in all the principal cities of Germany, France, and Italy, predicting that within ten years the trump of the Archangel would sound, and the Saviour appear in the clouds to call the earth to judgment.”
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

Edith Wharton
“[The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!”
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

Robert Greene
“So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.”
Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Elena Ferrante
“To write, you have to want something to survive you.”
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

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