"No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life."

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Source : Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.180, Crown

Trevanian

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“Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.”
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.”
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”
“Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.”
“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1896). “The Story of an African Farm: A Novel”
“Why do you like books so much?â€ he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. â€œYou never know what youâ€™ll learn when you open one. And if itâ€™s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”
“I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.”

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