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[MacCruiskeen]

“The world was more in me than I in it.”

- Thomas Traherne (from "Silence")

[Elihu]

Harriet Tubman quotes:
I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves.

[Elihu]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes:
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes:
It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word.

[dada]

You can find out more about someone by talking than by listening. - William Burroughs

[Allegro]

…Naked Lunch’s designated “Professor” fends off his rudely interrupting “multiple personalities” in order to explicitly reverse the power dynamics of the confessional relationship (73). After comparing the Ancient Mariner to a psychoanalyst “that does all the talking,” the Professor concludes: “You can find out more about someone by talking than by listening” (73-74). And although such an implausible claim may function as a rhetorical subversion of the reader’s pretensions to power, the narrator, by begging comparison to the Ancient Mariner, insinuates that the confessant can actually gain leverage over the confessor not just by acquiring knowledge but by transforming the confession into an assault.… [REFER.]

[ida pingala]

...and it will be nothing like we were taught.

-The Lost Symbol, ch. 111.

[Elihu]

Jules Michelet quotes:
The historian’s first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

[Allegro]

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

[ida pingala]

Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself... There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

[Allegro]

Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself... There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

[Elihu]

Isabel Paterson quotes:
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Isabel Paterson quotes:
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

Isabel Paterson quotes:
A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Alexandre Dumas quotes:
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

[ida pingala]

It's what I can't write and escape myself that I want to rip my head off and run screaming through the street with my balls in a fruit picker's pail.

What seems to be a movie about writer's block is actually a movie about censorship, among other things.

[Elihu]

Sallust quotes:
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

[ida pingala]

...The winters can be fantastically cruel. And the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel on a daily, rotating basis, repair damage as it occurs, and doing repairs so that the elements can't get a foothold.

- The Shining

[Nordic]