"I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home."

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Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin

Alex Garland

#Home Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Paper Quotes

“If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.”
“Anytime you part with money, bless it and say - 'There's always more where that came from.'”
“Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma...”
“A man in armor is his armor's slave.”
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
“Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.”
“Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.”
“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”

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