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“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
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“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”
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“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
Source : Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd
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“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material--the material informs the form,”
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“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”
Source : "Escape from Freedom". "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", Vol 1, No 2, 2006.
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“I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."”
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“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
Source : James Jones (2011). “From Here to Eternity: The Restored Edition”, p.943, Open Road Media
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“Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.”
