"Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent."

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Source : Fumiko Enchi (2015). “Masks”, p.124, Vintage

Fumiko Enchi

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“I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.”
“I'm starting to find my own style.”
“General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.”
“Mars and Venus and Jupiter, all of the handiwork of God was now placed in the authority of the God of the earth. And here's what He told him. He said I want you to guard it and keep out all intruders. Now that gives us a little insight on why When God made Adam all he did was made an exact imprint of himself. He duplicated himself, he was the image and from his image came himself.”
“Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didnâ€™t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesnâ€™t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.”

Source : "Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'" by Tom Morello, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 2012.
“Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.”

Source : "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.
“I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.”
“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”

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