"A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice."

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Source : "Guy de Maupassant" (1924) (translation byWalter Morison)

Isaac Babel

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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.”
“The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”
“I'd do a really tasteful Playboy shoot, but I'd want at least 700,000 for it.”
“Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “Teología de la liberación”
“Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.”
“Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.”
“Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”

Source : Luke Timothy Johnson (2007). “The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters”, p.66, Image
“I often play a move I know how to refute.”

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