"But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy."

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Source : Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

Miljenko Jergovic

#Sleep Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Silence Quotes

“We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
“I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.”
“The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.”
“What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.”
“What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.”
“As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.”
“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.”
“The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?”

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