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"She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type."
"Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants"
"The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole"
"The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . ."
"If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"
"I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant."
"Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it."
