Christine Caine Quotes
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.
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I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
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There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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I want to play Keith Richards.
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.
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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
