"Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally."

-- Ariel Dorfman

#Country Quotes

“Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.”
“One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.”
“A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.”
“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”
“The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.”
“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.”
“According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat”

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