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Franz Kafka
“You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

Eric J. Hobsbawm
“There may be a logical or historical reason why mid-Victorian English butchers should have been predominantly Conservative (a link with agriculture?) and grocers overwhelmingly Liberal (a link with overseas trade?), but none has been established, and perhaps what needs explaining is not this, but why these two omnipresent types of shopkeeper refused to share the same opinions, whatever they were.”
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848–1875

Franz Kafka
“No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.'

'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

J.M. Coetzee
“Thucydides wrote of people who made rules and followed them. Going by rule they killed entire classes of enemies without exception. Most of those who died felt, I am sure, that a terrible mistake was being made, that, whatever the rule was, it could not be meant for them. 'I--!': that was their last word as their throats were cut. A word of protest: I, the exception.

"Were they exceptions? The truth is, given time to speak, we would all claim to be exceptions. For each of us there is a case to be made. We all deserve the benefit of the doubt.

"But there are times when there is no time for all that close listening, all those exceptions, all that mercy. There is no time, so we fall back on the rule. And that is a great pity, the greatest pity. That is what you could have learned from Thucydides. It is a great pity when we find ourselves entering upon times like those. We should enter upon them with a sinking heart. They are by no means to be welcomed.”
J.M. Coetzee, Age of Iron

Zadie Smith
“The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive said pleasure.”
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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