Jim Cooper

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems