"Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble."

-- John Gunther

#Coffee Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.”
“Death Makes Angels of us all.”
“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

Source : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.
“We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
“In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El NiÃ±o Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.”
“Were we incapable of empathy â€“ of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own â€“ then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”

Source : "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir".

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