"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on."

-- Marilyn Monroe

“In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.”

Source : "China's Unpeaceful Rise". Current History, Volume 105, 2006.
“As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.”
“This is the world. I don't really believe in hell or heaven or an after life at all, I believe this is it. It can be a paradise for you, if you've got the right mindset. Or it can be a total nightmare. The song is just about remembering these moments of, you know, these epiphanies or magical moments of clarity that I think everybody has at some point in their life, often, while they're taking acid or something like that, or while they're doing really intense yoga.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.”
“Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.”
“Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.”
“Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.”
“I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.”

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