Bruce

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings