#con

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#creates #facade #my own #novel #own

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#environment #how #illustrates #individual #kafka

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#disposable #fine #growing #growing up #i

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contact #distraction #good #gratifying #i

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#cannot #concern #control #depression #drive

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#becomes #copy #deep #england #ever

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve