"I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up."

-- Grace Paley

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“The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.”
“May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!”
“Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.”

Source : "Anrophilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity". Book by Jack Donovan, 2006.
“All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from the Mossad.. with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.”
“We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today...”

Source : "Are Chess Players Intelligent?". Quality Chess Blog, www.qualitychess.co.uk. October 06, 2010.
“It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.”

Source : James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph Pine II (2007). “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”, p.90, Harvard Business Review Press
“On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.”

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