I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Maya Angelou

Tags: inspirational love trust 1997 annie-clark-tanner-lecture



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There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

J.D. Salinger

Tags: interview 1997 betty-eppes npr



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Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: death propaganda 1995 1998 famine 1997 aid north-korea kim-jong-il kim-il-sung 1996 north-korean-famine



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Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.

William S. Burroughs

Tags: 1997 george-laughead



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Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: politics united-states bill-clinton 1997 newt-gingrich politics-of-the-united-states triangulation-politics



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Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: death immortality reincarnation 1997



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The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: stupidity religion atheism evolution 1997



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You can't have occupation and human rights.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: torture human-rights israel 1997 israeli-palestinian-conflict israeli-occupied-territories military-occupation



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