Res ipsa loquitur.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Random: The Dark Arena and House, M.D.
Compliquer les choses simples, c'est facile. Simplifier les choses compliques, c'est du genie.
Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant.
- Ivory soap
And the things the Germans did, they did not because they were Germans but because they were human beings.
- Leo, The Dark Arena
We need a more intellectual approach, not emotional reactions. We have to reason, to change the world by logical action.
- Gordon, The Dark Arena
Reality's always almost wrong.
- Gregory House
People choose to take the path with the least amount of effort.
- Gregory House
Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant.
- Ivory soap
And the things the Germans did, they did not because they were Germans but because they were human beings.
- Leo, The Dark Arena
We need a more intellectual approach, not emotional reactions. We have to reason, to change the world by logical action.
- Gordon, The Dark Arena
Reality's always almost wrong.
- Gregory House
People choose to take the path with the least amount of effort.
- Gregory House
Labels: book, Gregory House, House
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Guts
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-Sylvia Plath
-Sylvia Plath
Labels: Sylvia Plath
Friday, March 13, 2009
Leon Uris - The Haj
SHEIK AHMED TAJI
Patience dries up oceans and erodes mountains.
We who have tasted the sweetness of life must also taste its bitterness.
But joy always follows sorrow, as bird follows the wind.
Sadness is only separated from joy by time.
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HAJ IBRAHIM AL SOUKORI AL WAHABI
Who cares? Well, maybe the Jews care. You know what they say.
The Jews are liberal. Take advantage of them.
Humanity was the last thing on the minds of the Syrians and Egyptians.
Perpetuation of hatred was the first, and in that they have succeeded.
Teamwork requires trust. There is no trust among us.
We pride in ourselves on our potency. In truth, we are impotent.
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GIDEON ASCH
They also believe they can humiliate us out of existence.
However, no revolution has ever come from the Arab people, only coups, holy wars and assassinations.
What kind of perverse society, religion, culture . . . what kind of human being . . . is it that can generate such volcanic hatred . . . that knows only hatred, that breeds only hatred, that exists for hatred?
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DR. MUDHIL
The Jews love one another. They will not tolerate fellow Jews living in such pestholes as Aqbat Jabar.
Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone. We Arabs are the worst. We can't live with the world, and even more terrible we can't live with each other. In the end it will not be Arab against Jew but Arab against Arab. One day our oil will be gone, along with our ability to blackmail. We have contributed nothing to human betterment in centuries, unless you consider the assassins and terrorists as human gifts. The world will tell us to go to hell. We, who tried to humiliate the Jews, will find ourselves humiliated as the scum of the earth.
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ISHMAEL
In the brutal heat and poverty, it became easier to cope by finding some shade, seeing mirages, and allowing fantasy to enter and take over my mind.
Patience dries up oceans and erodes mountains.
We who have tasted the sweetness of life must also taste its bitterness.
But joy always follows sorrow, as bird follows the wind.
Sadness is only separated from joy by time.
-=-=-=-=-=-
HAJ IBRAHIM AL SOUKORI AL WAHABI
Who cares? Well, maybe the Jews care. You know what they say.
The Jews are liberal. Take advantage of them.
Humanity was the last thing on the minds of the Syrians and Egyptians.
Perpetuation of hatred was the first, and in that they have succeeded.
Teamwork requires trust. There is no trust among us.
We pride in ourselves on our potency. In truth, we are impotent.
-=-=-=-=-=-
GIDEON ASCH
They also believe they can humiliate us out of existence.
However, no revolution has ever come from the Arab people, only coups, holy wars and assassinations.
What kind of perverse society, religion, culture . . . what kind of human being . . . is it that can generate such volcanic hatred . . . that knows only hatred, that breeds only hatred, that exists for hatred?
-=-=-=-=-=-
DR. MUDHIL
The Jews love one another. They will not tolerate fellow Jews living in such pestholes as Aqbat Jabar.
Islam is unable to live at peace with anyone. We Arabs are the worst. We can't live with the world, and even more terrible we can't live with each other. In the end it will not be Arab against Jew but Arab against Arab. One day our oil will be gone, along with our ability to blackmail. We have contributed nothing to human betterment in centuries, unless you consider the assassins and terrorists as human gifts. The world will tell us to go to hell. We, who tried to humiliate the Jews, will find ourselves humiliated as the scum of the earth.
-=-=-=-=-=-
ISHMAEL
In the brutal heat and poverty, it became easier to cope by finding some shade, seeing mirages, and allowing fantasy to enter and take over my mind.
Labels: Arab, Haj Ibrahim, Ishmael, Jew, The Hah
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
...his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time.
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There comes to an end to all things.
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There comes to an end to all things.
Labels: Jekyll and Hyde
