"Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes."

-- Neal Gabler

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“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”
“Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company
“It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.”

Source : Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.20, Penguin
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.27, Candlewick Press
“The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.”
“I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.”
“In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.”

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