"The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you are no longer human beings but only labor. It means that the land you live on is not earth but only property."

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Source : Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

Karen Tei Yamashita

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“We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.”
“It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.”
“Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.”
“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”

Source : "Liber de ludo aleae". Book by Gerolamo Cardano, 1560.
“The evening of life brings with it its lamps.”
“Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.”

Source : "'DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.
“The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.”

Source : "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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