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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Expressed
Opinion
Books
Written
Word
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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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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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madnessif you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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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.
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I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
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If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.
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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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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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