"Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages"

-- Elias Canetti

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“When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.”
“I've never been particularly maternal.”
“We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.”
“You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.”

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“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.”
“Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.”
“It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.”

Source : "Dear Mariella" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2010.
“One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.”

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