"Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead."

-- Italo Calvino

#Smell Quotes #Cairo Quotes #Body Quotes

“Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.”

Source : "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.
“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”
“I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.”
“Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
“Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.”
“The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.”
“Luke Willson... I believe will have as many catches and more yards than Rob Gronkowski.”
“I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.”

Source : "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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