"The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us."

-- Franz Kafka

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“Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.”
“My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.”
“It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.”
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldnâ€™t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta
“I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a ghost.”
“Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.”
“Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.”

Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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