Beth

“Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.”
― Roma Tearne, Mosquito

“A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat”
― Halldór Laxness, Independent People

“I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country”
― Halldór Laxness, Independent People