"A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!"

-- Alan King

#Holiday Quotes #Summary Quotes

“Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.”
“At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the only youngster who believed that!”
“In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.”
“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
“It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books
“In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.”
“Subsidize... or lend.”

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