Meir Shalev quotes
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“A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.”
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“Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.”
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“A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it,”
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“Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.”
-- Meir ShalevSource : Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
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“Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.”
Source : "The Cult of the Amateur". Book by Andrew Keen, June 5, 2007.
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“I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.”
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Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
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