“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”
Grace Slick (1939) American musician, writer and painter
“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”
Grace Slick (1939) American musician, writer and painter
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. … Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.
Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire
Turkish Wikipedia
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Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Proletariatis Brdzola August 1905, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 376
Contemporary witnesses
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Context: I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. … In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. … the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Brenda Jackson (1953) American writer
Source: Perfect Timing