"After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

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“Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.”
“Words are loneliness.”
“Time trouble is blunder time.”
“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.”
“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”

Source : "Directing Lauren Bacall: how I was handbagged by the screen legend" by Charles Sturridge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2014.
“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.”
“All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Aliceâ€™s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they werenâ€™t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.”
“Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.”

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