"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own."

-- Adrienne Rich

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“Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
“I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedyâ€”for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK
“If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.”
“But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.”

Source : "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.
“I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design”
“We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community,”

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