Oriana Fallaci Quotes - Page 2

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

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  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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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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  Gains, Wealth, Pleasure

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• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

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  Energy, Used, Get Real

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

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

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  Leader, President, Sovereign

  "Intervista con la storia (Interview with History)". Book by Oriana Fallaci (Preface), 1976.

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• Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.

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  Fun, Liars, Character

  "Interview with History". Book by Oriana Fallaci, 1974.

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• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

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  Lying, Play, Double Standard

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

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  Witty, New York, Real

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• To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

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  Success, Dream, Lost

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• Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

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  Children, War, Effort

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• America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

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  School, America, United States

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

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  Power, Leader, President

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

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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.

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  Cowboy, Would Be, May

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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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• 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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  Strength, Courage, Umpires

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

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• I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.

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  Mother, Years, Giving

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• [Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't like to be in your place.' And she said, 'The problem is not in the problems I have, it's in the idiots around me. Democracy, you know...' I now wonder what she meant by that unfinished phrase.

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  Tired, Envy, Democracy

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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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  Atheist, Thinking, Atheism

  "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

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  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• This Islam business kidnapped me.

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  Islam, Kidnapped

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

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• Journalism combines adventure with culture.

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  Adventure, Culture, Journalism

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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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  America, Media, Example

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• True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

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  True Power, Voice, Long

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• What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

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  Struggle, Boys, Men

  "Un Uomo (A Man)". Book by Oriana Fallaci, 1981.

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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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  Portraits, Portraiture, Want

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

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  Peace, War, Patient

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

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