"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

-- Marguerite Duras

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“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
“But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.”
“Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichÃ©s. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements.”
“If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.”
“A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them: be patient.”
“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press
“Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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