"When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff."

-- Arcangela Tarabotti

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company
“Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.”
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
“Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors , and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK . However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers .”

Source : "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.
“It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.”
“The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.”
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.”
“I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.”

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