"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."

-- Jose Saramago

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“When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.”
“Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.”
“I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.”
“I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now”
“I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.”
“When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.”

Source : 2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.
“I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong”
“Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.”

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