"Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time."

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Source : Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.212, Vintage

Jonathan Lethem

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“I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.”

Source : "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles - Q&A". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015.
“I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"”
“My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.”
“I love cooking and baking.”
“It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.”
“It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.”

Source : "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.
“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”
“It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.”

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