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Quotes by Writer
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
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"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
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"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
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"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
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"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
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"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
Life,
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"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
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"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."
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"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
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"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
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"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
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"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
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"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
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"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
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"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization."
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"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
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"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
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"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
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"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
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