"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."

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Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

Ilka Chase

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“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”

Source : Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.91, Zola Books
“Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.”
“I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.”
“Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.”
“I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?”
“The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.”

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