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Octavian Paler Quotes

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Octavian Paler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: romanian
Birth: July 2, 1926 - May 7, 2007

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Place Paradise More Cruel Here Been

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Joe Biden

Good Man Good Old Days My Own Old

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Melinda Gates

Home Together Doing Talk Going Our

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

Jeffrey Tambor

Change People You Some People Some

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Steve Martin

Myself Joy Writing Someone Acting

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

Culture Man Powerful Independent

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wife Happy Years Met Then Were

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

Jay-Z

Failure Fear People Think You Lose

I just want young people to read my books and feel cared for, feel safe, feel like there's someone else in the world who understands - or at least acknowledges - your existence.

Jason Reynolds

People World Feel Someone Young

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Jon Ronson

Childhood You Tyranny Sometimes Only

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

Good Anger Empathy Others Own Your

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

China Mieville

Dark True Clothing Out Wear Get

Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.

Christopher Poole

Community Culture Perspective People