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" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "
Oriana Fallaci
Wanted
Tyrant
Want
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" Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. "
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" Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. "
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" War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. "
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" I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. "
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" I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. "
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" Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' "
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" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "
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" Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. "
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" Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. "
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" My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. "
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" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "
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" The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "
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Italy
" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "
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" I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. "
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Suicide
Enemy
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" The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. "
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Most
Woman
Thing
" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "
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Think
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" I don't want to hear about my death. "
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" Heroes can be sweet. "
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Heroes
Sweet
" I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "
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Books
Opinion
Through
" I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. "
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Been
Only
Born
" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
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Must
Lonely
" The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe. "
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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "
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" What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. "
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" This Islam business kidnapped me. "
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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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" The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. "
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" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "
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" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "
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Everyone