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last updated: November 28, 2023

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
-- Caryl Rivers

Source : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.
-- Fritz Leiber

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Swords in the Mist”, p.7, Open Road Media

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.
-- John Milton

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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
-- Luc de Clapiers

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It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
-- Simon Bolivar

Source : Simón Bolívar (1951). “Selected Writings: 1810-1822”

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“Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.”
“If you don't ask, the answer is always no.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin
“When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.”
“I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”
“I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.”
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”
“I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!”

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“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”
“Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.”