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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Oriana Fallaci

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
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But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
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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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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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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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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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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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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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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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 leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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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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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'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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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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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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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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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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