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“Golly, I could drink a cup of coffee,” said Mac. “We’ll have swell coffee in Seattle, damned if we won’t, Mac.”
― John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel

“One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that when communication has reached its zenith, when the human voice can encircle the globe in a matter of seconds, when man can project the image of his face thousands of miles, it is almost impossible to know with any degree of accuracy the truth of a political situation only a hundred miles distant! Propaganda jams the media of communication.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“Contrite words cannot now stop profound processes which white men set in motion on this earth some four hundred years ago; four hundred years is a long time…time enough for habits, reactions, to be converted into culture, tradition, into a raison d’être for millions….”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“In many instances Christianity provides Communism with its justification. Communism is paying the unpaid bills of the Christian church.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“As the importance of ideology declined, I began to feel that maybe ideology was a weapon that suited only certain hostile conditions of life.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“but what fascinated me would be the asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and rosy pink which ran from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of imperceptible changes to their white feet, still stained a little by the soil of their garden-bed: a rainbow-loveliness that was not of this world.”
― Marcel Proust, SWANN'S WAY (Modern Classics Series): In Search of Lost Time (Du Côté De Chez Swann) - Philosophical and Aesthetic Masterpiece that Titillated Even Virginia Woolf's Desire for Expression

“nature, by all the feelings that she aroused in me, seemed to me the most opposite thing in the world to the mechanical inventions of mankind The less she bore their imprint, the more room she offered for the expansion of my heart.”
― Marcel Proust, SWANN'S WAY (Modern Classics Series): In Search of Lost Time (Du Côté De Chez Swann) - Philosophical and Aesthetic Masterpiece that Titillated Even Virginia Woolf's Desire for Expression

“in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)

“In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles