"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

-- Gore Vidal

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“To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press
“That which is priceless has no cost.”
“When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.”
“There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.”
“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”
“The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.”
“An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.”

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