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“No one who wears a crown is ever safe.”
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“If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.”
Source : Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)
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“I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.”
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“For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.”
Source : Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.227, Macmillan
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“As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.”
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“Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.”
Source : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.
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“But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.”
Source : Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press
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“The only burden you have ever had is your mind.”
