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...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...

~ Darcus Howe

Darcus Howe 1981 Black Panthers Interview London Police Corruption Quotes Racism Racism In Britain Uk

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson 1914 1981 Fiction Fiction Writing Journalism Sensationalism

He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1981 Janice Springer Rabbit Angstrom Sin

Slim is queer and though Nelson isn't supposed to mind that he does. He also minds that there are a couple of slick blacks making it at the party and that one little white girl with that grayish kind of sharp-chinned Polack face from the south side of Brewer took off her shirt while dancing even though she has no tits to speak of and now sits in the kitchen with still bare tits getting herself sick on Southern Comfort and Pepsi. At these parties someone is always in the bathroom being sick or giving themselves a hit or a snort and Nelson minds this too. He doesn't mind any of it very much, he's just tired of being young. There's so much wasted energy to it.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1981 Debauchery Ennui Nelson Angstrom Youth

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1981 Acoustics Church Ministry Priestcraft Rabbit Angstrom Stained Glass Window Wedding

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1981 Frustration Growing Up Nelson Angstrom Parenthood Rabbit Angstrom

In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns and cuts. A toad with four legs in front and six behind would be placed in a box with mirrors lining the four walls. The toad, amazed at its own appearance from every angle, would break into an oily sweat. This sweat would be collected and simmered for 3,721 days while being stirred with a willow branch. The result was the marvelous potion.When writing about myself, I feel something like that toad in the box.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1981 Autobiography Japan Medicine Potions Remedy Self Consciousness Toads

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1981 Cruelty Rabbit Angstrom
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