"It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire."

-- Moshe Dayan

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“Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.”

Source : "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.
“Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a dÃ©tente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.”
“Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.”
“Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
“A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.”
“Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.”
“When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.”

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