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  • enemies / friends

    NOTA BENE
    **************************
    When you live among dishonest men, there is more merit in making enemies than friends.
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  • #2
    Re: enemies / friends

    If history teaches us anything it is this:
    Homo sapiens is a being without a moral compass.

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    • #3
      Re: enemies / friends

      FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
      **********************************
      There is a type of Armenian
      who uses his love of Mt. Ararat
      as a license to hate his fellow Armenians.
      *
      When after countless book reviews, translations,
      commentaries, and interviews to our newspapers
      I raised the question of compensation,
      I was told “We don’t have the money.”
      That’s when I understood why
      Armenians prefer dead writers to living ones.
      The dead don’t make any demands.
      *
      We have two of everything –
      churches, bishops, schools, newspapers,
      editors, printers and so on –
      but not even minimum wage for writers.
      This may explain why even they
      have a Nobel-Prize winner…
      *
      In the eyes of our dividers,
      divisions are more important than God.
      *
      If I have survived so far
      it’s not because I deserve to live
      but because I am almost inaccessible:
      I live in the middle of nowhere
      with a quasi-Siberian climate.
      *
      Orson Welles’s favorite insult
      that could be taken as a compliment:
      “You’ve done it again.”
      #

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      • #4
        Re: enemies / friends

        Our academics know better
        than the crap they dish out for public consumption,
        but in Brecht’s immortal words:
        “Grub first.”

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        • #5
          Re: enemies / friends

          I was the most disappointed man on earth
          when I met my first Turk.
          He was short, skinny, and timid.
          No fez. No yataghan. No shalvars. No bloodshot eyes.

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          • #6
            Re: enemies / friends

            It is not at all
            unusual for a speechifier or
            sermonizer to end up believing
            in his own lies, especially if these
            lies have also been his
            main source of income and
            prestige.

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            • #7
              Re: enemies / friends

              Q/A
              ********************
              Q: What’s right and what’s wrong with Armenians?
              A: Right, nothing, wrong, everything.
              *
              Q: Are you a pessimist or an optimist?
              A: I write, therefore I am an optimist.
              *
              Q: You speak of corrupt and incompetent leaders:
              Who are they?
              A: Your question implies, if they exist,
              they must be faceless, anonymous nonentities.
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              • #8
                Re: enemies / friends

                Chamfort: “Women are made to deal with our weaknesses and our foolishness, not with our reason. "

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                • #9
                  Re: enemies / friends

                  ON UNDERSTANDING
                  **********************************
                  The complexities of reality are such that
                  even when we think we understand,
                  we don’t understand.
                  *
                  The greater the thinker,
                  the greater the number of his
                  critics, adversaries, and enemies.
                  And here I could make a long list of philosophers,
                  who were condemned to death,
                  crucified, excommunicated, assassinated,
                  exiled, and jailed.
                  *
                  ON COMMON SENSE
                  ****************************
                  It must be just about the least common
                  of all faculties. What makes perfect sense
                  on this side of the river may
                  be a capital offense on the other.
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                  • #10
                    Re: enemies / friends

                    There is nothing wrong with patriotism provided you keep in mind your enemy too has been brainwashed to believe there is nothing wrong in killing you in the name of God and Country.
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