"Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance."

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Martha Gellhorn

#Remember Quotes #Tyranny Quotes #Vigilance Quotes

“Love without attachment is light.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition”, p.260, Univ of California Press
“The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”
“I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects - a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world. And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them - I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.”

Source : Source: und.edu
“The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.”

Source : Song: Rise 'n' Shine
“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”

Source : "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.
“Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.”
“To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self- therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.”
“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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