"Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,â€ I said, â€œbut the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld hope their own world to beâ€”it isnâ€™t a mirror, itâ€™s an aspiration."

-- Jasper Fforde

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“If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,”

Source : "State of Israel could disappear, warns Olmert" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.
“To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.”
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
“where I wholly love I wholly trust.”
“Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.”
“The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.”
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”

Source : Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business
“Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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