"I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men."

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Source : "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

Allison Pearson

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“Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.”
“Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.”

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“Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.”

Source : "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.
“Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.”
“I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.”
“You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.”
“For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone is half-naked and having self-confidence or you have the feeling that she has or he has control of the situation. She likes to do it. Then I have nothing against it. But it's true that society doesn't talk about such issues. They just talk about whether there is a breast or not, but for me it's more interesting how the power game of camera and object is shown. And if it's a cool picture.”
“In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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