"Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways."
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"I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone."
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"Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you."
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"The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true."
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"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK."
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"Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec."
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"I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life."
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"Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life."
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"We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience."
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"Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside."
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"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it."
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"I'm not classically trained, but I am flawed in a very fantastic way!"
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"I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for."
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"I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect."
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"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."
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"I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age."
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"Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done."
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"There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course."
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"Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can."
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"What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation."
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