"Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford."

-- Eula Biss

#Country Quotes #Luxury Quotes #World Quotes

“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.”
“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.”
“Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.”
“The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”
“Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.”

Source : Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press
“The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.”
“Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.”
“Having a phobia has changed me.”

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