"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."

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Source : Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pedro Martinez

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“If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face.”

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.
“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.”
“The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.”
“When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a womanâ€™s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.”
“To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.”
“I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”

Source : Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky
“I'm a human entropy producer.”

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