Anatole France Quotes
Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise.
Anatole France
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson
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We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
Melina Mercouri
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
Becki Newton
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
Pamela Stephenson
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Even if all I did was stay away... it's still the best thing I ever did in my life.
Beverly Donofrio
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Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
Joanne Rowling
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Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise.
Anatole France
