"Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream."

-- Joan Didion

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“There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit”
“I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.”
“Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.”

Source : Oliver Cromwell (1820). “Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry”, p.561
“Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.”
“God has placed clear limits on Manâ€™s intelligence, but none on his stupidity.”
“All things are delicately interconnected.”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.”

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