"You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music."

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Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Annie Proulx

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“So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.”
“People are scared of falling sick in Indonesia, because Indonesia has one of the most compassionless medical systems in the world, totally abandoned to market forces. Medical care here is just 'business', as everything else here has become 'business'. It is quite terrifying and grotesque.”
“Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it”
“When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.”
“If 85 percent of Russians support the annexation of Crimea and the aggression against Ukraine, that is a very bad sign. The post-Soviet legacy is a heavy burden: Most Russians want to have the empire back. The only way it is possible to make that happen is to seize foreign territories.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. [...] It had been only through books - at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions - that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books; consequently, my belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from any abiding conviction of their ultimate value.”
“You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.”
“One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic book reader. I read comic books and I just loved them because even in the depths of the ghetto, you just thought, 'heâ€™s coming. I just donâ€™t know when because he always shows up and saves all the good people.â€™ I was maybe in the fourth grade, fifth grade; I was like â€˜Mom you think Supermanâ€™s coming?â€™ and she said â€˜Superman is not real.â€™ She thought I was crying because itâ€™s like Santa Claus is not real. I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.”

Source : "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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