Deanna

“Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.”
― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

“Gary Mark Gilmore: Go down on me, partner... I need it

Nicole Baker: Don't call me partner.

Gary Mark Gilmore: No, darlin'... I love it... I love it

Nicole Baker: Yeah, you and seven other motherfuckers.”
― Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song

“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”
― Ben Elton, Blind Faith

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin