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It is only when you try to change the status quo that you acquire a better understanding of the powerful forces that hold it together.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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One reason why some readers
dislike what I write
is that they have read
very few Armenian writers
and the ones they have read
belong to the “nightingales
serenading the moon” type.
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If I am a bad writer it may be because
I say and repeat what our ablest writers
(among them Raffi) have said
(“where Armenian blood flows,
search for the Armenian dagger”).
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Turks are not a majority even in Turkey.
You want proof? Ask yourself:
If you had a choice between an old hag
and a young attractive one,
what would be your choice?
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You say, “Me wrong? Never!”
and I say “How I wish I were wrong.” #armenians

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One of our elder statesmen once said to me: “If
you continue to criticize our benefactors, they
may withdraw their support.” I had to explain to
him that benefactors don’t respect the opinions
of someone whose annual income is negative.

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The 99% don’t think.
They let the 1% do the thinking for them.
Until very recently the 99% didn’t even know
they were 99%.

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ONE-LINERS
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Subservience is an instrument of the devil.
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The Kingdom of God is an undiscovered continent.
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Nightingales serenading the moon is bird-watching not literature.
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What is literature? To say what must be said.
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Some truths should be repeated as often as big lies.
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Friday, October 21, 2016
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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“God save America.”
He is the only one who can.
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America is pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian.
America must now choose between Trump and Hillary.
Do you see a connection here?
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“God save America?
God DAMN America!”
Remember him?
What happened to him?
Is he dead or alive?
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The history of our literature is undeniable proof
of the fact that some of us refused to be moronized.
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It doesn't take much for an Armenian to transfer his hatred of Turks onto his fellow Armenians. A misplaced comma will do as conveniently as a misunderstood semicolon.

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Monday, October 24, 2016
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ON FORGIVENESS
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Everybody speaks of forgiveness;
nobody speaks of making oneself
worthy of forgiveness.
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How does one make oneself worthy of forgiveness?
The fact that you are asking that question suggests
you are not yet worthy of it; which means,
you are the same bastard that you were
when you committed the transgression.
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When you offended your victim,
you didn’t ask how do I go about offending him?
You did so because it was an authentic expression
of your nature. Being worthy of forgiveness
requires a radical change in character.
Otherwise it is not and cannot be authentic.
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ARMENIANS IN ISTANBUL
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In his superbly illustrated coffee-table book, NEW EUROPE, Michael Palin has a section on Armenians in Istanbul, where he discusses the assassination of Hrant Dink, the photographer Ara Guler (“a Jew and also an Armenian”), and “a debonair art dealer” by the name of Raffi Portakal.
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