The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen