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
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Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones,...
Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes, " he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."" So... your religion dies with you. How sad, " Dorolow said, looking back...
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now...
