"I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest."

-- Gena Showalter

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“I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.”
“There`s no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he chooses to have around him and to listen to.”
“Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.”
“Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.”
“[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?”

Source : Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”
“I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.”
“India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.39, Penguin Books India
“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

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