"Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible."

-- Desmond Tutu

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“Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”
“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.”
“We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.”
“Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.”
“If Iâ€™d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, Iâ€™d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.”
“I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.”

Source : "Aussie Keith Urban's success 'destiny'" By Lauren Hunter, cnn.com. February 19, 2001.
“A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.”
“And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.”

Source : John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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