Dan Guire

“Sir William’s work shows, I think, the great respect the small intruding country had at that time for the awesome mass of a subcontinent of which it was edging into control.”
― Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

“The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?”
― Jack Kerouac

“She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can’t stop stealing.”
― William Gibson, Agency