"我上楼回到自己的房间。 我早该预见到这件事的：比我大不了多少的女孩都经历过了。一直来上学的某个女生会在某一天突然不来了：嬷嬷们不喜欢大费周章地搞那种伤感泪流的欢送会。之后就会有订婚的传言，然后是婚礼的传言。我们都不可以参加婚礼，哪怕那个女生曾是我们的密友。一旦你开始准备结婚，就会从以前的生活中彻底消失。下一次出现在别人面前时，你已经是令人肃然起敬、一袭蓝裙的夫人了；所有未婚女孩都必须在门口让路，让你先进出——这也即将成为我的现实。 我要被赶出自己家了——赶出塔比莎的家，赶出有泽拉、薇拉和罗莎的家——只因宝拉受够我了。"
— Margaret Atwood, 于是: 证言, p. 25
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"和以强权控制你的人开玩笑是很愚蠢的。他们不喜欢那样；他们会认为你不认同他们无所不能的权力。我现在有自己的权力了，我也不鼓励我的下属们轻浮无礼。但那时候的我没在意。我是后来才有长进的。"
— Margaret Atwood, 于是: 证言, p. 24
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“Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.” — Walter Lippmann, "Mr. John Strachey' Case and the Law," Today and Tomorrow (1938-10-13)
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To truly know freedom, one must develop the human being until one makes sure that no authority has the possibility of existing.
-- Albert Libertad
For who could see the passage of a goddess
Unless she wished his mortal eyes aware?
[τίς ἂν θεὸν οὐκ ἐθέλοντα
ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἴδοιτ᾽ ἢ ἔνθ᾽ ἢ ἔνθα κιόντα]
Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 10, l. 575ff (10.575-576) [Odysseus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]
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We’re the home of the brave and the land of the free. But if we want to be free, then we gotta be brave. ~~ Mark Ruffalo
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A quotation from Katharine Lee Bates
America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) American writer and poet
Poem (1893), “America,” st. 2 (1904 ed.)
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Granny Weatherwax didn’t hold with looking at the future, but now she could feel the future looking at her.
She didn’t like the expression at all.
(Wyrd Sisters)
Good morning, ladies. Now which one of you has the time scanner?
— The Doctor, to a group of cows, in “Image of the Fendahl”
I passionately love humanity, and have dedicated my best efforts to the fight for the oppressed. All tyrants disgust me -- and all those who put up with them, adulate them, support them. After having brought them down will I make myself a tyrant in their place? I would be disgusted with myself.
-- Andre Lorulot
Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate.
[L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu’une heure de lecture n’ait dissipé.]
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 213 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]
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You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-28) to Abigail Adams
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"When it came to me, Mrs. Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became."
— Arundhati Roy: Mother Mary Comes to Me
A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
“Your money or your life.” We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 8 (1966)
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Will there be a future? We feel we might almost ask ourselves this question when we see so much terrible darkness. Grim confrontation between the selfish and the wretched. In the selfish, prejudices, the ignorance of a superior education, appetite fed by overindulgence, the insensitivity of an indurating prosperity, fear of suffering that in some extends to an aversion to those who suffer, relentless complacency, an ego so inflated it denies access to the soul. In the wretched, greed, envy, a hatred of seeing others enjoying themselves, the convulsions of the human beast within them seeking satisfaction, hearts befogged, sadness, need, fatalism, ignorance impure and simple.
[L’avenir arrivera-t-il ? il semble qu’on peut presque se faire cette question quand on voit tant d’ombre terrible. Sombre face-à-face des égoïstes et des misérables. Chez les égoïstes, les préjugés, les ténèbres de l’éducation riche, l’appétit croissant par l’enivrement, un étourdissement de prospérité qui assourdit, la crainte de souffrir qui, dans quelques-uns, va jusqu’à l’aversion des souffrants, une satisfaction implacable, le moi si enflé qu’il ferme l’âme ; chez les misérables, la convoitise, l’envie, la haine de voir les autres jouir, les profondes secousses de la bête humaine vers les assouvissements, les cœurs pleins de brume, la tristesse, le besoin, la fatalité, l’ignorance impure et simple.]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 7 “Argot,” ch. 4 (4.7.4) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]
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Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) English composer, arranger and teacher
Letter (1921) to William Gillies Whitaker
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A quotation from Wendell Berry
The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)
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Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.
-- August Spies
A quotation from Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of heart, give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine insensibly; not to mention those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood, and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-24), The Spectator, No. 387
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The Patrician’s personal guard was not known for its responsive approach to community policing, preferring to cut bits off instead. Among the things they took a dim view of was, well, basically, people being in the same universe.
(Sourcery)
