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Anthony Burgess
“Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”
Anthony Burgess

Haruki Murakami
“People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Ryū Murakami
“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”
Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

Alan W. Watts
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control it proliferates laws of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed.”
Alan W. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

Robert W. Chambers
“No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.”
Robert W Chambers, The Yellow King: The Complete Collection

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