"Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.”
“Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safetyâ€™s off and I put on her. Oh stick â€˜em up, stick â€˜em up. Ready to shoot.”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
“[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their ***** on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.”

Source : Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.
“So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.”
“We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.12
“The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”

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