Josephine Herbst quotes
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“No one ever understood disaster until it came.”
-- Josephine HerbstSource : Josephine Herbst (1977). “Nothing is sacred”, Arno Pr
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“The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.”
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“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.”
-- Josephine Herbst
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“I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.”
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“Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.”
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Source : "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph (p. 26), December 2, 2004.
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“The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.”
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“In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.”
Source : Abel Bonnard (1933). “The Art of Friendship”
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“I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.”
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“Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.”
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