"I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try."

-- Margaret Drabble

#Trying Quotes #Needs Quotes #Print Quotes

“We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.”
“I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself-they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead-why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea? This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent-just put your flags away and THINK!”

Source : Facebook post by Cindy Sheehan, www.facebook.com. May 2, 2011.
“Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.”
“Art is really a battle.”
“You would not like me if you knew me.”
“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
“Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.”
“A human life is a schooling for eternity.”

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