"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
-Don DeLillo
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"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.“
-Don DeLillo
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"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
-Don DeLillo
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"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
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"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
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"The future belongs to crowds."
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"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
-Vladimir Lenin
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"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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