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“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”
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“Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood,”
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“Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
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“Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.”
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“There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.”
Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
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“When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.”
Source : Song: Somebody To Love
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“No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.”
Source : Diana Palmer (2014). “September Morning”, p.20, Harlequin
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“History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.”