"I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about."

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Source : Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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“The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.”

Source : "When I Think Of My People Broken Down". "Journal of South Asian Literature", Vol. 12, No. 1, published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, (p. 11), 1976.
“If anyone says that the one Jesus Christ who is both true Son of God and true Son of man did not know the future or the day of the Last Judgment and that he could know only as much as the divinity, dwelling in him as in another, revealed to him, anathema sit.”
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.”
“When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.”
“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”
“We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.”
“In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.”
“See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.”

Source : W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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