"I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful."

-- Julie Burchill

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“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.”
“Hervé has that sex appeal. Certain bodies need Hervé Léger badly because you have to reformulate the silhouette.”

Source : "Max Azria on BCBG vs. Hervé Léger" by Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. February 9, 2013.
“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”
“Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.”

Source : "The GOP Senator In Charge of Homeland Security Disagrees With The Pentagon On Climate Change" By Kate Sheppard, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2015.
“Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.”
“I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robbing murderer. There is nothing to do about that. The world is such that if you want to find the intensity within the genuine, you will at the same time find the criminals around the nearest corner. And if you eliminate that genetic quality in the human being, then everyone will become very inactive and very boring, but on the other hand we get rid of criminality.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.”

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