"In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory."

-- Etgar Keret

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“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”
“I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.”
“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Not like [Adele Dazeems] going to follow me around for the rest of my life.”

Source : "Oscars 2015: Idina Menzel Gets Revenge on John Travolta" by Arlene Washington, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2015.
“What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel”
“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”
“The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press
“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”

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