#asses

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#approach #assessment #critical #current #elite

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#hatred #idealism #love #much #passes

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound. ↗

— Aulis Sallinen

#enormous #masses #people #sound #these

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#denied #desertion #enough #facilities #good

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dead #drink #few #get #glasses

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#creative #encompasses #i #i think #influence

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#experience #fast #flow #focusing #going

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#i #shy #very #women #wore