"To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Witold Gombrowicz

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“A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”

Source : "Mike Huckabee's Record on Women's Rights Faces Increased Scrutiny". www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2007.
“I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.”
“God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.”
“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.”
“I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!”
“Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, youâ€™ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.”
“It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the NFL you have to do the right things so the team can win.”
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

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