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"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."
"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!"
"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."
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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
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