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“You need contradictions to make an ideal.”

Quote by Alex Shakar

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Alex Shakar is an American novelist born in 1968. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into modern life. more

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“That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”

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“Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.”

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“From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.”

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Book:First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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“As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I’ve had the chance to do something that’s worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.”

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Book:First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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“Sometimes I think that all anyone needs in life is lots of popcorn and a few Lovelies”

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“I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay.”

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“It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.”

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“Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.”

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