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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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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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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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Physical courage is a great test.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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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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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
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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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Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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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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