James Fields

“He realized that all men were like this; that each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in—though he had much liking for his fellow men—and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromises with the truth.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Douglas opened one eye. And everything, absolutely everything, was there. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“nothing is more rare than to find them using common sense; that is to say, the portion of judgment sufficient to know the most simple truths, to reject the most striking absurdities, and to be shocked by palpable contradictions.”
― Jean Meslier, Superstition In All Ages