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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.

Oriana Fallaci

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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
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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 an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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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 cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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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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Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
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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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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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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