"...the greatest tyrants over women are women."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Tyrants Quotes

“I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was a risk, but it made it interesting. My relationship with food has been complicated and rocky and not always wonderful, and it's a lens through which my entire life and identity are refracted.”

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“Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.”
“Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck”

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“I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.”

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“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.”
“when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”
“No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.”
“Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.”

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