"You cannot do only one thing."

-- Garrett Hardin

“Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say”
“Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.”
“In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.”

Source : "The New World of Nicolas Berggruen". Interview with Richard Bradley, www.worth.com. October 21, 2012.
“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage
“I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.”
“I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill ... Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

Source : "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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