"My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses."

-- Richard Rodriguez

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“One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.”
“No one can be cured of being who they are.”

Source : "Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game". Book by Tilly Bagshawe, August 1, 2009.
“Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.”
“The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation thatâ€™s going to be rewarded will be on things like, letâ€™s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Letâ€™s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.”
“This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Network", www.imdb.com. November 14, 1976.
“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
“We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.”

Source : "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 3-4, 1984.
“The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,”

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