"[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.”
“There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.”
“For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.”
“At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.”
“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”
“Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.”

Source : "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.
“But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. â€œYou're green. Are you sick?â€ â€œIt's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,â€ I say. â€œIt's meant to be pretty,â€ whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, â€œI think you'd be pretty in any color.”
“There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.”

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