"It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place."

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Source : George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

George Mikes

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“He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.”
“My God, it transformed me. My life changed.”
“Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.”

Source : Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
“There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”
“Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.”
“The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.”

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