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Elena Gorokhova
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs

Daniel Pennac
“... tu sais le pauvre parle fort, c'est une de ses caractéristiques, un invariant historique et géographique, il parle fort depuis toujours et dans le monde entier, il parle d'autant plus fort qu'il est entouré de pauvres, le pauvre, et qui parlent fort eux aussi, pour se faire entendre, comprends-tu? Le pauvre a la cloison mince. Et il jure beaucoup, c'est vrai, mais sans penser à mal, rassure-toi...”
Daniel Pennac, Chagrin d'école
tags: pauvre

Mohsin Hamid
“Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift and kill. But whereas achieving a massive bank balance demonstrably attracts fine physical specimens desperate to give their love in exchange, achieving love tends to do the opposite. It dampens the fire in the steam furnace of ambition, robbing of essential propulsion an already fraught upriver journey to the heart of financial success.”
Mohsin Hamid

Daniel Pennac
“Ah! je voulais te dire aussi, n'aie pas peur de leur sabir. Le sabir du pauvre d'aujourd'hui, c'est l'argot du pauvre d'hier, ni plus ni moins. Depuis toujours le pauvre parle argot. Sais-tu pourquoi? Pour faire croire au riche qu'il a quelque chose à lui cacher. Il n'a rien à cacher, bien sûr, il est beaucoup trop pauvre, rien que des petits trafics par-ci par-là, des broutilles, mais il tient à faire croire que c'est un monde entier qu'il cache, un univers qui nous serait interdit, et si vaste qu'il aurait besoin de toute une langue pour l'exprimer. Mais il n'y a pas de monde, bien sûr, et pas de langue. Rien qu'un petit lexique de connivence, histoire de se tenir chaud, de camoufler le désespoir.”
Daniel Pennac
tags: sabir

Julia Child
“I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena”
Julia Child, My Life in France

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