"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls."

-- Burt Bacharach

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“Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.”
“Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.”
“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
“I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.”
“No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.”
“I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.”

Source : "Brian McDermott: Credit? Just give it away, I'm genuinely not bothered". Interview with Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.
“we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.”
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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