Ask me not what I have, but what I am. - Heinrich Heine

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You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Heinrich Heine

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

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Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

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There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

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The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

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I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

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