"I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours."

-- Joe Bradley

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“There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.”
“The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.”
“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”
“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.”

Source : Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.
“But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.”
“Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.”
“And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.”
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.”

Source : Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 10

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