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“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy”
― Henry Miller

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
― Henry Miller

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
― Henry Miller

“And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion – dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous...”
Chocky in "Chocky”
― John Wyndham, Chocky

“Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.”
― Edward Tufte

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”
― Oliver Markus

“The school board banned one of Maya Angelou's books, so the librarian had to take down her poster.

I fished it out of the trash.

She must be a great writer if the school board is scared of her.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel