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Katherine Rundell
“To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen.”
Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Jean Meslier
“I wish (he said) that all the great men of the earth and all the nobles were strung up and strangled with the guts of the priests.”
Jean Meslier, Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier

George Orwell
“He [Jonathan Swift] was a great man, and yet he was partially blind. He could only see one thing at a time. His vision of human society is so penetrating, and yet in the last analysis it's false. He couldn't see what the simplest person sees, that life is worth living and human beings, even if they're dirty and ridiculous, are mostly decent. But after all, if he could have seen that I suppose he couldn't have written Gulliver's Travels.”
George Orwell, Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings

Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, - it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.”
Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses

M. John Harrison
“The transit lanes were full of pathetic alien junk abandoned by the survivors in the aftermath of the war: personal effects, robbed of place and purpose and cultural definition, hard to identify in terms of human equivalence as the belt-buckles, book-ends or athletic trophies they undoubtedly were. Tiny, with the brain of a jackdaw and all the moral sensibility of a maggot in a cemetery, had been pocketing the shiner bits as he went along, exclaiming "Look at that, Truck!" and "Hey, someone's kicking himself for losing this!”
M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device

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