"I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."

-- Anais Nin

“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.”
“It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two”
“If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.”
“I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.”
“The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.”
“When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.”
“By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.”
“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”

Source : "The Laugh of the Medusa". Article by Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs, Volume 1, No. 4, pp. 875-893, www.jstor.org. Summer 1976.

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