"Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Wish Quotes #Stories Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.”
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”
“Life is fundamentally up for grabs”
“Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.”
“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.”
“I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.”
“We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.”
“Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.”

Source : "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

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