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“No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.”
Source : Peter Benchley (1995). “Ocean planet: writings and images of the sea”, ABRAMS
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“I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.”
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“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.”
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“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.”
Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.293, A&C Black
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“Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.”
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“It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.”
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“The CW likes to hold on to its shows.”
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“Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.”
Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1969). “History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays”, p.43, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
