Ordovas 2001 Quotes

#1. The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary

Isaac Deutscher

#2. It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.

William Finnegan

#3. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Vernon Howard

#4. The only rumors worth listening to have Stevie Nicks on vocals.

Chris Jericho

#5. Excuse me, but who I love isn't something you get to prescribe for me, like a doctor with some pills.

Claudia Gray

#6. The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Angela Carter

#7. She was held for ransom. No one else was to be involved. Gabe paid up but didn't make it in time to release her from a coffin. They didn't keep their word. She suffocated, buried underground.

Lacey Silks

#8. We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

Robert Webb

#9. It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Adi Alsaid