"The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel."

-- Norman Podhoretz

#Writing Quotes #Israel Quotes #Roles Quotes

“... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...”

Source : Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971
“Nowadays you can't be loud enough!”
“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
“Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.”
“I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.”

Source : Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.”
“Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.”

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