"The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden."

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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“Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.”
“Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”
“You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.”

Source : "What’s With the Jewish-Man/Asian-Woman Connection, Anyway?" by Deborah Jiang-Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.
“Ah, Evie,â€ she heard him say softly, â€œI must have a heart, after allâ€¦because right now it aches like the devil.â€ â€œOnly your heart?â€ she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. â€œAlso a few other things,â€ he conceded. â€œAnd as my wife, itâ€™s your duty to ease all my aches.”
“Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.”

Source : "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.
“Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.”
“for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.”

Source : "‘Battle Creek’ star Dean Winters on nearly killing Josh Duhamel and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 1, 2015.
“One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.”

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