"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."

-- Gore Vidal

#Taken Quotes #Gossip Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.”
“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”
“Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.”
“The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.”
“The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?”

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.
“My music has always been strong in melodic content.”
“I have to talk like this! It`s my job”
“Character demonstrates itself in trifles.”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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