"Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before."

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Source : John Berendt (2006). “The City of Falling Angels”, p.39, Penguin

John Berendt

“The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.”
“Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.”
“Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We had doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which suggests that no coherent answers can be offered. What we hear is 'it is not comprehensive responses that matter, we will not give them anyway; what is important is whether you believe us or not'.”
“I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.”
“More than anything, Iâ€™m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and canâ€™t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. Itâ€™s not going to be in the middle â€“ itâ€™ll be one way or the other. Thatâ€™s how it has to be.”
“The only atheism is the denial of truth.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1929). “The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era”
“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”
“I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.”

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