"I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.129, Random House
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
“I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.”
“The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.”
“America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq”
“Daytime television, you can tell whoâ€™s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either itâ€™s clinics for drying out drunks. Or itâ€™s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or itâ€™s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If youâ€™re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. Youâ€™re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”
“I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.”
“One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.”

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