"In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down."

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Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

Katherine Boo

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Advancement Quotes

“I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.”
“Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time.”
“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”
“He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more”
“If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around...”
“A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.”

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