Alex Miller

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky