Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters…

— Harold Bloom

“This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

“You know, the suspension of disbelief is fragile. It’s hard to achieve it and hard to maintain. One bit of unnecessary gore, one hip…

— Ernest Adams

“We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this…

— June Strong

“We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something…

— John Holloway

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.”

— Barbara Lazear Ascher

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman

“A barely tolerable world became unbearable.”

— Mary Burton

“The world is cruel enough without our compounding it;”

— Scott Lynch

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

— Floriano Martins

“How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing world shall…

— Carlos Fuentes