"I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!"

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Source : Mark Felt, John D. O'Connor (2007). “A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat', and the Struggle for Honor in Washington”, Public Affairs

Mark Felt

“Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.”
“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”
“I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.”
“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”
“Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.”
“When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.”
“Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she isa woman.”
“There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.”

Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

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