"The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines."

-- E. B. White

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“There's nothing more human than two people making love.”
“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”
“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It's true that the biggest value of life is that it's going to stop. I was thinking when I was in New York the last time that all that we see that has importance is man-made. It isn't nature-made. And when I was looking through the window, looking at New York, I was so moved by humanity's desire for immortality-because that's what it is.”
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
“Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff.”
“Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.”
“Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.”

Source : Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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