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  • #11
    Re: crackpots

    To our superpatriots I say: Patriotism and respect for human rights are not mutually exclusive concepts. Homeland is where a man is allowed to work, provide for his family, and express his views freely. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of patriot who treats free speech as an invention of the corrupt and degenerate West. That’s not patriotism but Ottomanism, Sovietism, and fascism.#armenians

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    • #12
      Re: crackpots

      One of my favorite Jewish jokes goes something like this:
      Two old friends meet on a road somewhere in Russia
      and after a brief exchange one of them says to the other:
      “You tell me you are going to Minsk
      because you want me to believe you are going to Pinsk,
      but I happen to know you are going to Minsk:
      Why must you always lie to me?”
      #

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      • #13
        Re: crackpots

        To rewrite history means to ignore its lessons.

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        • #14
          Re: crackpots

          Preston Sturges on his mother: "She was endowed with such a rich and powerful imagination that anything she said three times, she believed fervently. Often twice was enough."

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          • #15
            Re: crackpots

            Perhaps my quarrel is not with readers but with myself, my younger self, when I was innocent and naďve and therefore an ideal target for manipulators.

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            • #16
              Re: crackpots

              Racism and diplomacy are mutually exclusive concepts.

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              • #17
                Re: crackpots

                When life becomes unbearable, our need for illusions becomes overwhelming.

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                • #18
                  Re: crackpots

                  Tuesday, July 19, 2016
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                  NOTES / COMMENTS
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                  Trump’s wife, when asked if he listens to her:
                  “Sometimes he does, sometimes he don’t.”
                  *
                  One nation under God; two under the Devil.
                  *
                  I once met an Armenian writer
                  (I forget his name)
                  who made a comfortable living
                  as the secretary of a bishop.
                  He wrote fiction.
                  *
                  There is money in Armenian literature
                  provided you are willing to submit
                  your intelligence to someone
                  who may not have enough of it himself.
                  #

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                  • #19
                    Re: crackpots

                    One of the functions of lawyers is to defend the lawless.

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                    • #20
                      Re: crackpots

                      Nations and empires die as surely as individuals.
                      Scientists tell us the same fate awaits
                      not only the planet on which we live
                      but also the universe itself.
                      I doubt if I or anyone else
                      can postpone the inevitable final catastrophe
                      by even a fraction of a second.
                      Perhaps I write the way I write
                      not to save anything or anyone or, for that matter, myself,
                      but to kill time.
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