"Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the Eastâ€™s exuberant vision of the West, the Westâ€™s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna â€” the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation."

-- M. John Harrison

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“I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.”
“I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.”
“If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.”
“When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.”
“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I donâ€™t know why theyâ€™d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.”

Source : Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
“I've always wanted to sing country music.”
“Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable...”
“The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.”

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