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All Quotes Collection
"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis."
183
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
199
"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
198
"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"
217
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
34
"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
36
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
39
"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."
192
"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
37
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
37
"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
38
"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
47
"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."
40
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
36
"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."
Work,
39
"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse."
40
"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."
42
"We all make mistakes but one has to move on."
41
"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
43
"Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes."
30
"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
41
"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."
29
"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account."
41
"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."
39
"Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest."
44
"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life."
39
"At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life."
34
"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
48
"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
45
"I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year."
52
"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."
31
"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."
33
"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate."
36
"I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative."
43
"I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power."
39
"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."
49
"I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."
47
"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book."
40
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