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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”
— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tagged: Change, Unexpected Things, Unsplash + QC
“We will put new American steel into the spine of our country. American workers will construct gleaming new lanes of commerce across our landscape. They will build these monuments from coast to coast, and from city to city. And with these new roads, bridges, airports and seaports, we will embark on a wonderful new journey into a bright and glorious future.”
— Donald Trump, Remarks by President Trump on Regulatory Relief
Tagged: Trumpsim
“Why should we continue to accept what is so clearly unacceptable?”
— Donald Trump, Remarks by President Trump on Regulatory Relief
Tagged: Trumpsim
“In a democracy, everyone, no matter how nonconformist or eccentric, should be free from harassment and abuse. But at the same time, no one deserves special rights, protections, or privileges on the basis of their eccentricity.”
— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror
Tagged: Individual Rights
“Every day I think about untwisting and untangling these strings I'm in. And to lead a pure life. I look ahead at a clear sky, ain't gonna get there, but it's a nice dream, it's a nice dream.”
— Iggy Pop, The Pure and the Damned
Tagged: But Then Gomorrah Calls, Ideals, Striving For Perfection, Quote of the Moment, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism
“Getting old can be worth the trouble if it gives you time to do some soul making.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Aging, Getting Older
“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it. Then you have to be able to let it tell itself.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: fiction, How To Write Fiction
“In order to write a story, you have to trust yourself, you have to trust the story, and you have to trust the reader.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind
Tagged: Writing
“Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?”
— William Gibson, Dreams
Tagged: Alphabet, Building Blocks of Language, Quotes, Education
“The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.”
— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?(Zero Books)
Tagged: Capitalism, Reorienting Thought And Action Away