"Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal."

“The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.”

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.57, Hamilton Books

“It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.”

“I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.”

Source : "Chelsea omit Frank Lampard and John Terry for FA Cup semi-final" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

“If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.”

“One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

“I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.”

“I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.”

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