"Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.”

Source : Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.”
“One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.”
“You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.”

Source : "Fergie's exclusive Cosmo interview". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 8, 2011.
“It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.”
“It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."”
“When Allah decides a matter, it is done.”
“At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.”

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