"Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy."

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Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

Jenny Erpenbeck

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“In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked”
“Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up the definition of "nation"; this is how awkward my relation is to this concept. And it is defined as, "a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." Perhaps if you replace "descent" with "dissent" the definition becomes more meaningful.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.”
“[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.”
“When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.”
“Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.”

Source : "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.
“We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.”

Source : Emmet Gowin, Princeton University. Art Museum (1998). “Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs”

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