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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. ↗

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats. ↗

— James Clavell

#survival #food

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#prisoners #science-fiction #freedom

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

Every invalid is a prisoner. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#invalid #prisoner

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. ↗

— William Hague

#been #having #i #myself #opposed

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#because #caused #early #federal #get

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#fiercest #go #her #lets #pain

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. ↗

— William Burroughs

#except #finally #hemingway #him #his