Vishal Khatri
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“I was surprised by what I found; moreover, because I came away with a knowledge that I had not possessed before, I was also grateful, and surprised by that as well. I had not expected the violence to be so pleasurable....This is, if you like, the answer to the hundred-dollar question: why do young males riot every Saturday? They do it for the same reason that another generation drank too much, or smoked dope, or took hallucinogenic drugs, or behaved badly or rebelliously. Violence is their antisocial kick, their mind-altering experience, an adrenaline-induced euphoria that might be all the more powerful because it is generated by the body itself, with, I was convinced, many of the same addictive qualities that characterize synthetically-produced drugs”
― Among the Thugs
― Among the Thugs
“Simplicity rules everything worth while, and whenever I have been up against a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have realized that it was hopelessly wrong and I have let it alone.”
― The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
― The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
“all forms of vitality are forms of velocity, and no wonder a growing child desires to out-Nature Nature by filling a minimum stretch of time with a maximum of spatial enjoyment. Innermost in man is the spiritual pleasure derivable from the possibilities of outtugging and outrunning gravity, of overcoming or re-enacting the earth's pull.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
― Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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