Jeffrey W.

“Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“The way you get people to testify against themselves is not to have police tactics and oppressive techniques. What you do is build it in so people learn to distrust everything in themselves that has not been sanctioned, to reject what is most creative in themselves to begin with, so you don’t even need to stamp it out.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!”
― William Gaddis, J R