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“I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.”
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“Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.”
Source : Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984
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“Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press
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“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.”
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“Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.”
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“It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.”
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“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149
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“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
