Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.
“Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.”
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Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.
“Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.”
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“Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.”
“Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.”
“Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.”
“Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'”
“Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.”
“Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.”
“Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.”
“I'm very independent. I don't depend on anything or anyone for nothing.”
“I've always said my expectations are higher than what anyone else could put on me.”
“At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.”
“I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.”
“Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.”