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“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”---Barbara Hall

"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."
~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“He shoveled the bacon out on a plate and broke the eggs in the hot grease and they
jumped and fluttered their edges to brown lace and made clucking sounds.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."---Angelina Jolie

"From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art."----Michel Foucault

“You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”― Neil Gaiman