"This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts."

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A. L. Rowse

#Hate Quotes #Century Quotes #Filthy Quotes

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right â€” as right as you can, anyway â€” it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
“A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.”
“The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.”

Source : " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.
“Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, 'Albert, you get right back in here and tell me you love me.' He grinned and jokingly said, 'Elsie, when we were married, I told you I loved you, and if that ever changes, I'll let you know.' It's hard to overuse the expression, 'I love you.' Use it daily.”
“I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.”
“Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.”
“In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.”
“The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.”

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