"When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death."

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Source : Jean Genet (1987). “Querelle”, p.46, Grove Press

Jean Genet

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“Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.”
“The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness. The Prussian does not have the imagination to conceive in terms of abstract racial and political theories, but when he is told to do something, he does it.”
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2011). “A Wonderful Welcome to Oz: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz”, p.148, Modern Library
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”

Source : "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.
“Men respect women who have standards - get some!”
“No, I think the pitching today has more depth.”

Source : Interview with Darrell Horwitz, bleacherreport.com. 2004.
“Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe”
“I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.”

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