How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?
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Maaza Mengiste
To be “out of touch” with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
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Mona Eltahawy
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing....
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Anonymous
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Victor Hugo
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By J.G. Ballard
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with...
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal...
