"10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?"

-- Alan Coren

#War Quotes #Bed Quotes #Three Quotes

“Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.”
“Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.”
“When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”

Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014
“To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!”

Source : National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975.
“I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.”
“Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?”
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”
“Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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