"I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console."

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Source : Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

Elie Wiesel

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“Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”
“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”

Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
“I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.”
“As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.”
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?”
“People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.”
“Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
“As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.”

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