"The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Successful Quotes #Army Quotes #Fate Quotes

“It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.”
“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press
“I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“World will suffice for me in the future.”
“I am interested in silences”
“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.”
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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