Jay Parini Quotes

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Jay Parini

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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

Federica Montseny
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Lady Gregory
- Time
- World
- Death
The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

Barry Larkin
- Believe
- Death
- Hate
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Children
- Death
- Child
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Malala Yousafzai
- Want
- Death
- Education
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Namie Amuro
- People
- Time
- Long