"The world's fat is badly divided."

-- Martha Gellhorn

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“I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.”
“Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.”
“I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ and therefore I shy away from church.”
“Isnâ€™t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3Â Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.”
“Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.”
“You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.”

Source : "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.
“I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.”

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