"America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Lasdun

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Viewpoints Quotes

“Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.”
“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”
“Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.”
“The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.”

Source : Carl Joachim Friedrich (1972). “The pathology of politics: violence, betrayal, corruption, secrecy, and propaganda”, HarperCollins Publishers
“And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.”
“There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.”
“Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.”

Source : Institutional Investor Magazine, September 2001.
“I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.”

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