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“The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

“Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing’;”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“A slow capillary creep of knowledge has occurred on Lewis, up out of landscape’s details and into language’s.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“I relish the etymology of our word thing – that sturdy term of designation, that robust everyday indicator of the empirical – whereby in Old English thynge does not only designate a material object, but can also denote ‘a narrative not fully known’, or indicate ‘the unknowability of larger chains of events’.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“To the culture of the early Renaissance, the demon presents a limit to the empiricism of the unknown, something that can only be verified through contradictions – an absent manifestation, an unnatural creature, a demonic malady.”
― Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy

“ESTRAGON: Use your intelligence, can’t you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. VLADIMIR: (finally). I remain in the dark.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“To enter water is, of course, to cross a border. You pass the lake’s edge, the sea’s shore, the river’s brink – and in so doing you arrive at a different realm, in which you are differently minded because differently bodied.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“his sculptural work with dry-stone walls, that looped across hillsides and fields with such cursive elegance that they appeared a natural landform – as spontaneous in their rhythms as rivers.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“A life lived as variously as Roger’s, and evoked in writing as powerful as his, means that even after death his influence continues to flow outwards. Green Man-like, he appears in unexpected places, speaking in leaves.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“a face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.”
― Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart

“An eagle soaring above a sheer cliff, where I suppose its nest is, makes another striking show of life, and helps to bring to mind the other people of the so-called solitude—deer in the forest caring for their young; the strong, well-clad, well-fed bears; the lively throng of squirrels; the blessed birds, great and small, stirring and sweetening the groves; and the clouds of happy insects filling the sky with joyous hum as part and parcel of the down-pouring sunshine.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“—He can’t wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey trousers.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“On All Saints’ Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“Traditionally, the Socratic tradition in philosophy has a therapeutic function, which is to dispel the horrors of the unknown through reasoned argument. What cannot be tolerated in this tradition is the possibility of a world that cannot be known, or a world that is indifferent to our elaborate knowledge-producing schemes.”
― Eugene Thacker, Starry Speculative Corpse: Horror of Philosophy

“now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings

“I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings

“for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of Shakespeare

“I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am     marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if     my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“When one says ‘ten o’clock’ or ‘three o’clock,’ this is not the grey and shrunken time of towns; it is the memory of a certain fulmination or declension of light that was unique to that time and that place on that day, a memory as vivid to the hunter as burning magnesium.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker

“Did the great Creator first draw her in a masterpiece,   (9) And then touch life into his art? Or did he make her in his mind alone, Drawing on beauty’s every part? No—considering her singular perfection And her maker’s true omnipotence, I suppose her some quite unique creation In femininity’s treasure house.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“The child had woken before she could ask whether this meant that pigeons were all human ghosts, forms that dead people had gone into and become, or whether they somehow existed simultaneously in Heaven, where dead people go, and up amongst the rafters of the derelict barn in the neighbour’s yard at the same time.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem