‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t’, said Mark Twain epigrammatically.
“When they chop up your corpse, it doesn’t matter if you’re campus Marxist or café Marxist. Grass-roots socialist or champagne socialist. The flies will shit on you and the maggots will munch.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Most of Colombo's socialists don't love the poor. They just hate the rich.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“For atheists there are only moral choices.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Buddhism forces the poor to believe they belong where they are. The order is made to appear natural. It is self-serving bullshit that keeps the poor sick.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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