Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

—Shirley Ann Grau

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About Shirley Ann Grau

Portrait of Shirley Ann Grau

Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929 – August 3, 2020) was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize...

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I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree.

—George Carlin

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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

—Stanley Kubrick

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In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen.

—Hannah Arendt

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