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“On Fifth Avenue I went into the Trump Tower, a new skyscraper. A guy named Donald Trump, a developer, is slowly taking over New York, building skyscrapers all over town with his name on them, so I went in and had a look around. The building had the most tasteless lobby I had ever seen --- all brass and chrome and blotchy red and white marble that looked like the sort of thing that if you saw it on the sidewalk you would walk around it. Here it was everywhere --- on the floors, up the walls , on the ceiling. It was like being inside somebody's stomach after he'd eaten pizza.”
Bill Bryson

Barbara Demick
“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Simon Vestdijk
“Geen mens kon een ander overtuigen van zijn liefde; men kon er alleen maar aan geloven, van elkaar.”
Simon Vestdijk, De dokter en het lichte meisje

Johan Harstad
“Wie weet heb ik de blunder begaan me tot een oersaaie figuur te ontwikkelen, in haar ogen dan. Ter verdediging kan ik het volgende aanvoeren: de meeste mensen zijn oersaai als je ze maar de tijd geeft om dat te bewijzen.”
Johan Harstad, Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven

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