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John Steinbeck
“I nearly forgot something my old father told me not long before he died. He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.”
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Ezra Pound
“I have detested you long enough.
I come to you now as a grown child”
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
Ezra Pound

Iris Murdoch
“I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.”
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Michel Foucault
“[D]iscipline tries to rile a multiplicity of men to the extent that their multiplicity can and must be dissolved into individual bodies that can be kept under surveillance, trained, used, and if need be, punished.”
Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

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