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“If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!”
Source : Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.
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“During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.”
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“I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.”
Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.56, Penguin
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“I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.”
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“The world is not for cowardly peoples.”
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“You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...”
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“Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.”
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“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”
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“Shopkeepers are not bankers.”
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“A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.”