"I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably."

-- Thomas Bernhard

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“In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.”
“In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
“I want people to feel good about themselves.”
“Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.”
“I didn't want to lose the human scale.”
“I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.”
“I think theres something strangely musical about noise.”
“Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.”

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