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"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent … I'm not joking."

"Corot spoiled the 'étude' we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio."

"Those who have come alive out of a blood-bath live longer and have more children."

"children can never be upbraided with their having had a felon for a father: whereas the descendants of a white person, married to a black one, would, for many generations, by their complexion, proclai…"

"WHEN father bought the lamp, or a little before that, he said to mother:"

"Interview for the Smithsonian Institution"

"Don't be scared of the high language of economists and Cabinet ministers, but think of politics at our own household level. After all, women live in contact with food supplies, housing shortages, and …"

"Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree. Mute separations, mute black, bloody events in every family. Invisible mourning worn by mothers and wives. Now the arrested …"

"I'm going to take that dog away from you. Not a fucking thing you can do about it either, because you are a weak, broke, piece of shit."

"Would somebody just put a dick in that guy's mouth, please? 'Cause that's what he wants. He's a cocksucker in disguise. He's got his mouth open 'cause he wants someone to cum in it. Now, do you wanna …"

"You should be talking to a doctor of theology, not a Father of Lies. The distinction is subtle but real."

"I woke up from a nap the other night. Everyone is cranky when they wake up. I thought to myself: 'I have no right to be cranky. I'm so lucky.' On my way to go to a restaurant, I get out of the car and…"

":Diligence is the mother of Good-Luck."

"On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

"The enemy is at the gates of the city. The day is perhaps not far off when our breasts will be the last defence for our country. We are the children of the Revolution. Let us take inspiration from our…"

"What Lars Trägårdh came to understand during his years in the United States was that the overarching ambition of Nordic societies during the course of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first,…"

"My education was built up upon ruthlessly hard-and-fast ideas crowned by a patriotism that nothing could shake. In the insurrection of Vendée, allied with the foreigner against Revolutionary France, t…"

"Whom could this operetta offend? Only those of us who, despite the fact that we may respond, loathe being manipulated in this way and are aware of how cheap and ready-made are the responses we are mad…"

"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."

"I got interested in children who fall through the cracks…We love to think these kids fall through the cracks because there is something wrong with them or their parents. I think all children are beaut…"