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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent over, holding his hand, not raising it from his knee, and she pressed her lips to his hand. Her hat fell off, he saw the blond head at his knees, he felt her mouth kissing his…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not…

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“The hijab-related deaths and death sentences in Iran show that breaking the attire laws is more dangerous adventure than breaking the nudity laws.”

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When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the…

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The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the…

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“If citizens are punished instantly for breaking the laws, then politicians should also be punished immediately for breaking the promises.”

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I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could…

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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

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Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is…

“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were breaking the…

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When I'm driving, you have a different feeling when the police get behind you and you're not even breaking the law. The tension is…

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Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality…

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If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of…

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There's no excuse for breaking the law.

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