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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. ↗

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. ↗

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #bad #dream #else

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dream #into #listening #reader #their

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take? ↗

— Robert Blake

#away #done #entire #future #going

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #dolls #enormous #expressions #facial

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. ↗

— William Blake

#black #both #day #i #night

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. ↗

— William Blake

#avoid #base #man #mind #ready