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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Sex, Children, Speak

  Oriana Fallaci (1968). “The egotists: sixteen surprising interviews”

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• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Pregnancy, Abortion

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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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?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Portraits, Portraiture, Want

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

  Oriana Fallaci

  Book, Opinion, Written Word

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Men, Tyrants, Want

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• To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Shoes, Survival, Cows

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• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Equality, Eggs, Where You Are

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Dog, America, Usual

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• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Past, Ifs, Knows

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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

  Listening, Tape, Machines

  Oriana Fallaci (1967). “Limelighters”

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Father, House

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Book, Feels

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Girl, Fighting, Littles

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Peace, War, Patient

  Oriana Fallaci (1972). “Nothing, and So be it”

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Men, World, Language

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• One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

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  Offering, People, Making Love

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• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  Oriana Fallaci

  War, Believe, Soul

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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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  Children, Men, People

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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!

  Oriana Fallaci

  Suicide, Asking, Remember

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• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Warrior, America, Unions

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• I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Father, Cutting, Government

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Disgusted, Anti Semitism

  "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

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  Girl, Son, Italian

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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.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Men, Shy, Mets

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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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  Thinking, Broken, Balls

  "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker, June 5, 2006.

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