Quotes
Authors
Elena Ferrante

"Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain."

-- Elena Ferrante

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“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”
“Today, Musana is a thriving orphanage in Iganga, Uganda, housing over one hundred children! When asked what it was that made her fight for these children she simply said, â€œI just kept thinking, â€˜If I donâ€™t do something, who will?' Today, so many of us Christians talk so much about being the hands and feet of Christ, but never really displaying what that looks like. Itâ€™s not about talking. Itâ€™s about doing! Itâ€™s time for us to do something!”
“Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.”

Source : Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.”
“The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.”

Source : Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com
“When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.”

Source : Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins
“There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.”

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