"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

-- Franz Kafka

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“I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.”
“I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.”
“A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.”
“The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.”
“There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.”
“I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.”

Source : Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.26, Wayne State University Press
“For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women... When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.”

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