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Suzanne Vega

"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would."

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"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would."

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"Some girls are taught to be sexy."
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"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."
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"There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting."
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"A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized."
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"So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is."
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"I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political."
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"You have to defend your honor. And your family."
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"I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character."
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"Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way."
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"Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life."

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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"Nobody's sane above the law."

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

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