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Never, never say to an Armenian writer, "It's easy for you to say." Only readers who know nothing about the history of our literature are capable of uttering such nonsense. Being a writer, being an Armenian writer, being an honest Armenian writer has never been easy. As a boy, my elders repeatedly warned me of this, but I ignored them. Which goes to show that idealism can lead one to hell as surely as a life of crime.
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Stanislaw Lec: "Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?"

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Greek saying: "He who wants too much, will lose even the little that he has."

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Stendhal: “All my life I have always seen what I imagined rather than reality.” *There is an element of wishful thinking in all thinking. Propagandists know this and do their utmost to exploit it, and the more successful they are, the greater the distance between us and reality.#

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According to some psychologists, the compulsion to speak the truth is neurotic. By contrast, the compulsion to lie is a survival tactic and as such in no need of psychiatric treatment.

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To be the slave of former slaves is not freedom.

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Sunday, July 31, 2016
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HOW TO FIX WALL STREET
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Penalize those who make vast fortunes
while others go bankrupt.
Moderate greed may be useful,
but excessive greed fully qualifies as
“cruel and unusual punishment” on underdogs.
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BIOLOGY MATTERS
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There are no Armenians, only part-Turks;
or, in American Negro parlance “Oreos” --
black on the outside, white on the inside;
or in our case, Armenian on the outside,
Turk on the inside.
To say otherwise is to rate
propaganda above biology.
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Monday, August 01, 2016
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ON JUSTICE
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Life is not a one-way street
but a labyrinth designed not by God
but the Devil.
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It is not enough to know the law;
you must also know the judge.
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If you know the judge,
you can get away not only with murder
but also with genocide.
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LOUIS XIV SPEAKS
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“Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.”
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“Has God forgotten what I have done for him?”
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“I very nearly had to wait.”
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“Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.”
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Oshagan said:
“We lost because we were tiny islands
in a Turkish sea.”
My question:
Did we have to die by the million
in order to reach that earth-shaking conclusion?
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