"There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Alice Mattison

#Smart Quotes #Writing Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.”

Source : Comment in comp.os.plan9, groups.google.com. 2004.
“When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.”
“One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.”
“I think the word is adult!”
“I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.”
“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”
“I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And I love the sex of singing with a beat; I like the sexiness of it. I think it's really where I'm from.”

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