Quotes from Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

“if they brought you here,They'll put you to work. THEY'RE not readyto kill you YET.”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

“Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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“«Μια μέρα ο Αλλάχ βρέθηκε μπόσικος, έπιασε φωτιά και κοπριά κι έπλασε το Ρωμιό. Μα ευτύς, ως τον είδε, το μετάνιωσε. Είχε ένα μάτι ο αφιλότιμος που τρυπούσε ατσάλι. «Τι να γίνει τώρα, μουρμούρισε ο Αλλάχ, την έπαθα. Ας πιάσω να κάμω τώρα τον Τούρκο, να σφάξει το Ρωμιό, να βρει ο κόσμος την ησυχία του.» Και ευτύς, χωρίς να χασομεράει, βάνει σ’ ένα ταψί τον Τούρκο και το Ρωμιό να παλέψουν. Πάλευαν, πάλευαν ως το βράδυ, κανένας δεν έριχνε το κάτω τον άλλον Μα ευτύς, ως σκοτείνιασε, βάνει ο άτιμος Ρωμιός τρικλοποδιά, κάτω ο Τούρκος! « Ο διάολος θα με πάρει, μουρμούρισε ο Αλλάχ, την έπαθα πάλι. Τούτοι οι Ρωμιοί θα φάνε τον κόσμο, πάνε οι κόποι μου χαμένοι… Τι να κάμω;» Ολονύχτα δεν έκλεισε μάτι ο κακομοίρης, μα το πρωί, πετάχτηκε απάνω και χτύπησε τις χερούκλες του: «Βρήκα βρήκα» φώναξε. Έπιασε πάλι φωτιά και κοπριά, κι έφτιαξε έναν άλλο Ρωμιό, και ους έβαλε στο ταψί να παλέψουν. Άρχισε το πάλεμα. Τρικλοποδιά ο ένας, τρικλοποδιά κι ο άλλος. Μπηχτές ο ένας, μπηχτές κι ο άλλος. Μπαμπεσιά ο ένας, μπαμπεσιά κι ο άλλος… Πάλευαν, πάλευαν, έπεφταν, σηκώνουνταν, πάλευαν πάλι, ξανάπεφταν, ξανασηκώνουνταν, πάλευαν… Κι ακόμα παλεύουν! Κι έτσι ο κόσμος βρήκε την ησυχία του…!»”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, quote from Christ Recrucified

“No, I’m not happy. I’m far from fucking happy. I’ve been far from fucking happy since I got out of prison. If I think back, I wasn’t exactly happy before prison either, and it’s your fucking fault!”
“How the fuck is that my fault?” Now, he’d gone too far, blaming me for his life years before I was even in it.
“Because you are the one who made me realize I was fucking unhappy. Because with you, I think I can actually BE happy!”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King

“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity

“إن الدهاء الذي تتسم به هذه الإمبراطورية الحديثة يتجاوز كل ما صنعه فرسان الرومان والغزاة الأسبان وقوى الإستعمار الأوروبي في القرنين الثامن عشر والتاسع عشر.
فنحن قراصنة الإقتصاد على درجة عالية من الإحتراف، إذ اننا وعينا دروس التاريخ. نحن اليوم لا نحمل سيوفا ولا نرتدي دروعا او ملابس تعزلنا عن غيرنا.
ففي بلاد مثل الإكوادور ونيجيريا وإندونسيا نرتدي ملابس كالتي يرتديها المدرسون المحليون وأصحاب المحال التجارية. وفي واشنطن وباريس نبدو كموظفي الحكومة والبنوك متواضعين وعاديين، نزور مواقع المشروعات ونتسكع داخل القرى الفقيرة، نتظاهر بإنكار الذات ونحدث الصحف المحلية عن الأعمال الإنسانية العظيمة التي نؤديها.
نغطي طاولات مؤتمرات اللجان الحكومية بأوراقنا ومشاريعنا المالية، ونحاضر في كلية إدارة الأعمال في هارفارد عن عجائب المشروعات الإقتصادية الكبرى.
حققنا مكانة مرموقة في الحياة العامة أو هكذا رسمنا صورة لأنفسنا وتقبلنا أنفسنا، بهذه الطريقة ينجح النظام. ونادرا ما نلجأ للخروج عن القانون. فالنظام نفسه مبني على خدعة والنظام بشكل محدد يوصف بأنه قانوني.”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon

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