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I’ve never been addicted to drugs or alcohol, but I have often been addicted to dreams. This is the lot of the writer. You become a writer because the world you encountered in the stories you read as a child is more exciting than the world ...more
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“He let his mind go, following its apparently new logic: it came to a matter of self-control, something laughed at by himself and virtually all the people he knew in the universities. He personally associated it with being a Boy Scout. In something not unlike terror, he saw how the great truths had been made banal for the popular taste; how the oversimplifying of them was a danger to himself and others dedicated to the complex and subtle. The terror became real in him as he saw for a second time, with a clarity equivalent to physical sight, how much more difficult it was for an intelligent person to be saved.”
Harry Sylvester, Dayspring

Slavenka Drakulić
“Nobody would doubt for one moment that my husband is a rich foreigner - why in the world would I marry a poor one? My marriage also means that I have escaped the common destiny of my people: the war, poverty, insecurity, unemployment, disappointment, political confusion, low wages, and the feeling that time is running out fast and you can't be certain if the future will bring anything better.”
Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

Slavenka Drakulić
“If you asked a child riding a broomstick what it was doing, the child would answer, without hesitation: 'I am riding a horse.' For that child, a stick is a horse. It is as if by merely calling something by another name, you are able to transform it into what you want it to be. By usurping God's power, you create an illusion of an instant Paradise. And no one has yet told the infant Eastern Europe that a wooden stick is not a horse.”
Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

L.M. Montgomery
“It was such a nice feeling to know that someone was looking after you... that someone wanted you... that you were important to someone.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside

Slavenka Drakulić
“Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, those 'haves' should share with the 'have nots.' And because there is not much to share anyway, in the end that egalitarianism boils down to the equal distribution of poverty.”
Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

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