"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."

-- Antonio Tabucchi

“The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.”
“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.”
“We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.”
“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.”
“I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.”
“Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama has said, we need a comprehensive energy plan for the country that includes conventional resources like oil and gas, but that also takes advantage of wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other renewable resources.”
“In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”

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