Devon Spratlin

“Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Woman is not a fixed reality but a becoming; she has to be compared with man in her becoming; that is, her possibilities have to be defined: what skews the issues so much is that she is being reduced to what she was, to what she is today, while the question concerns her capacities; the fact is that her capacities manifest themselves clearly only when they have been realized: but the fact is also that when one considers a being who is transcendence and surpassing, it is never possible to close the books.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer