"The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium."

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Source : "The week in books" by Giles Foden, John Dugdale, Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.

Joseph O'Neill

#Special Quotes #Novel Quotes #Mediums Quotes

“Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.”
“Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
“I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.”
“You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.”
“Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.15, Da Capo Press
“Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.”
“I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.”
“I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.”

Source : David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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