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“Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.”
Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
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“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”
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“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”
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“Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”
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“There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.”
Source : Pearl Bailey (1976). “Hurry up, America, & spit”, Harcourt
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“We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.”
Source : "The mysteries of love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.
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“Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?”
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“Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.†It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.”
Source : Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge