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“Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically”
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“I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.”
Source : Julian May (2013). “The Many-Coloured Land”, p.52, Pan Macmillan
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“The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case). Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off.”
Source : "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms".
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“In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can be as a journalist. I attribute some of this success to my ability to haggle. The main thing in this game is to ask for money and when they tell you the amount you say, "no, I want more".”
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“As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam,”
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“I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.”
Source : "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014. 
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“We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.”
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“I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.”
Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
