"Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend."

-- Marcel Achard

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“The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.”

Source : "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.
“Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.”
“Thereâ€™s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstoneâ€™s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.”
“If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”

Source : "An elegant escape" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.
“There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall”
“Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
“Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible”
“Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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