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“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.”
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“Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.”
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“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
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“Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.”
Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.21, Xist Publishing
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“A brave nation fights because it must ; a cowardly nation fights because it can.”
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“I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.”
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“Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.”
Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
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“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
