"The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake."

--

Pico Iyer

“Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.”
“Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
“Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.”
“I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.”

Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
“The FÃ¼hrer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!”
“If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.”
“I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do.”
“The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.”

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