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Quotes from Mendoza in Hollywood — Kage Baker

1952–2010 United States

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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

“Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,” I quoted.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.

Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kage Baker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.