"Men marry what they need. I marry you."

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Source : John Ciardi (1988). “Poems of Love and Marriage”, p.16, University of Arkansas Press

John Ciardi

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“It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.”
“It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews ... The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.”

Source : "'Das Judenthum in der Musik' ('Judaism in Music')". Essay by Richard Wagner, 1850.
“The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.”
“Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.”
“A policemans job is only easy in a police state.”
“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.”
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

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