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“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“There were murderers looking for the right people to murder, people whose deaths would gain the approval of the king. There were jesters-in-reverse whose job was not to make the king laugh or to tell him uncomfortable truths but to laugh uncontrollably at the king’s humorless witticisms and listen to and applaud his barefaced lies. There were members of criminal gangs whom the king had placed in charge of the police force. There were crooked lawyers, crooked judges, crooked legal clerks, all there to make sure that the laws of the land would crumble and fail beneath the stamping foot of the king who had placed himself above the law.
(...)
when the king married not one but two of his nieces, the word incest was simply expunged from the lexicon and made illegal to use; and after that it became necessary to make other changes to the dictionary, to redescribe rape as love, horror as patriotism, bullying as good governance, war as peace, freedom as slavery, and ignorance as strength, so as to ensure that the absolute monarch had absolute power over the language itself, over vocabulary and syntax and metaphor and fable, and to turn the world upside down, so that it would only mean what the monarch wished it to mean.”
― The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
(...)
when the king married not one but two of his nieces, the word incest was simply expunged from the lexicon and made illegal to use; and after that it became necessary to make other changes to the dictionary, to redescribe rape as love, horror as patriotism, bullying as good governance, war as peace, freedom as slavery, and ignorance as strength, so as to ensure that the absolute monarch had absolute power over the language itself, over vocabulary and syntax and metaphor and fable, and to turn the world upside down, so that it would only mean what the monarch wished it to mean.”
― The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“He was disappointed in the young. They should have understood the danger of a dictatorial ruler and made it their generation’s calling to fight him until he was overthrown (...)
And most of the younger generation were preoccupied by other squabbles, the young men, fearing and wanting to crush the independence of young women, turned out to like the “manliness” of the king, and young women had their own preoccupations. In short the young were engaged in their own little squabbles so that the big squabble, the crucial squabble against the tyrant, went unsquabbled (...)”
― The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
And most of the younger generation were preoccupied by other squabbles, the young men, fearing and wanting to crush the independence of young women, turned out to like the “manliness” of the king, and young women had their own preoccupations. In short the young were engaged in their own little squabbles so that the big squabble, the crucial squabble against the tyrant, went unsquabbled (...)”
― The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
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Pillars of the Earth Readalong 2019
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