"The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own."

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Source : "'Matched' Author Ally Condie's Guide To A Dystopian Holiday", www.mtv.com. December 2, 2011.

Ally Condie

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“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”
“The word beauty is unavoidable â€¦ it accounts for my decision to photograph â€¦ There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight â€¦ through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”
“So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is -- we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
“I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“Grace flows through wounds.”
“I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.
“With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.”
“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”

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