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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. — Mary J. Blige

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying? — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

That's still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you're the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain? — Arthur C. Clarke

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. — Benito Mussolini

The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously. — Gunduz Vassaf

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for, — Burt Lancaster

My past is everything I failed to be. — Fernando Pessoa

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes. — Gayle Forman

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

Maybe they're not surrendering," said the smirking soldier in false consolation. "Maybe they all just really had to piss. — Laini Taylor

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that. — Kat Dennings

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part ... he was the part! The real life Godfather. — Victoria Gotti

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else. — Eric Schneiderman

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything. — Bernie Ecclestone

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

Cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

human beings, cans of living preserves — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio