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The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Mann |

It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Jeremy Rifkin |

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Gore Vidal |

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Robyn Davidson |