"Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging."

-- Emma Bonino

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“Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.”
“You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.”
“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
“Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.”
“I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ***** or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.”

Source : "Oh, Superman". Broadcast for "Opinion" on Channel 4 (May 31, 1990); later quoted in Harold Pinter "Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005" (pp. 198-199), 2005.
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
“Having children with someone is the real bond.”
“All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.”

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