"Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes."

-- John Redwood

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“One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in a similar way. The image or a reference to the image is traced throughout the four separate narratives. It sometimes seems to be the only link between the pieces, while the symbol Nabokov cuts remains wide open, a pencil sketch, a mystery to interpret outside his role as emigrant/observer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

Source : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.
“Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.”
“The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.”
“Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.”
“I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.”
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
“The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins,”

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