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“I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.”
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
Source : "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
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“Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.”
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“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
Source : "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.
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“You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”
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“Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.”
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“The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art”
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“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”
Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin