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"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
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"LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about."
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
"Great change doesn't come with official endorsement."
"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."
"He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object."
"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass."
"Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone."
"The Sun Going SouthIn late sunshine I wander troubled.Restless I wander in autumn sunlight.Too many changes, partings, and deaths.Doors have closed that were always open.Trees that held the sky up are cut down.So much that I alone remember!This creek runs dry among its stones.Souls of the dead, come drink this water!Come into this side valley with me,a restless old woman, unseemly,troubled, walking on dry grass, dry stones."
"In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil."
"The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?"
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