Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”
Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49
Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble
Broken Lights p. 82 Diaries 1951-1952
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13
Cory Booker (1969) 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
[Fallon, Kevin, Cory Booker Rescues a Freezing Dog & 9 Other Things He Has Saved, https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved?ref=scroll, 21 August 2018, The Daily Beast, January 26, 2013]
Via Twitter, in response to a tweet asking "Why is there a family today that is ‘too poor’ to afford breakfast?" Booker would go on to do exactly that. He later told CBS that it had been a "terrible state of human existence", and continued "I'll be honest with you. I take so much for granted, even going to Starbucks and buying a cup of coffee is more than my daily food allowance right now," as quoted in [Bailey, Holly, Cory Booker’s week on food stamps: political ambition amid the burned sweet potatoes, https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/cory-booker-week-food-stamps-political-ambition-amid-101008142--election.html, 21 August 2018, Yahoo! News, December 11, 2012]
2012