"Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”
“I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.”

Source : " Japanese nationalist tipped to be PM, raising fears of tensions with China" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.
“I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”
“Every US President has to have a war.”
“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.”
“I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.”
“America is not the world.”

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