"I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales."

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Harold Pinter

#Women Quotes #Littles Quotes #Tales Quotes

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
“Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.”
“Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”

Source : George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
“If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.”
“It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it. Oh! how well was our Lord served in Mary's virginal womb! Never has He found a ciborium, a golden vase more precious or purer than was Mary's womb! Mary's adoration was more pleasing to Him than that of all the Angels. The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart," and "Mary is the aurora of the beautiful Sun of Justice.”
“The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.”

Source : "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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