Democracy, of course, does rely somewhat on the voters making good decisions in the first place. For example, in 1981 the small Californian town of Sunol elected a dog as their mayor.
"But let me just tell you something about Ministers of Culture: in places where there is a Minister of Culture it means there is no culture."
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masum:) ben de canım:) ben de:):)
I'm on vacation. Vacations always end. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.
a place of your own
...he would sometimes stand, barefoot, in the kitchen, everything quiet around him, and the small, ugly apartment would feel like a sort of marvel. Here, time was his, and space was his, and every door could be shut, every window locked.
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"You loved knowledge and wherever you went you made sure to build a school, a library ( in both of these places you distorted or erased my history and glorified your own).
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Naoka stayed frozen in place, like a small nocturnal animasyon that has been lured out by the moonlight.
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When We the Living was completed, she knew she now could write her “serious” novel, a novel that would present her philosophy and would be written fully in the literary style that had been struggling slowly and painfully into life. She had learned enough about her new country confidently to place the novel’s action in America. She was, at the age of thirty, fully an adult, prepared to handle adult characters.
She knew what the theme of her new novel was to be; while still writing We the Living, she had worked on it in what she called “small glances”—that is, it was not a systematic activity, but something her mind went to whenever she was momentarily free of other responsibilities.
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Jamie...
"Herkesin içinde sadece kendine ait küçük bir bölge vardır. Orası onun kalesidir, hayatının en özel ve gizli yeridir oraya senden başkası giremez ve seni sen yapan yer zaten orasıdır."
"Everyone has a small area inside them that is only their own. It is his castle, the most private and secret place of his life, no one else can enter there and that is the place that makes you who you are."
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I just want everything to be like it was, Eileen said. And for us to be young again and live near each other, and nothing to be different. Alice was smiling sadly. But if things are different, can we still be friends? she asked. Eileen put her arm around Alice's shoulders. If you weren't my friend I wouldn't know who I was, she said. Alice rested her face in Eileen's arm, closing her eyes. No, she agreed. I wouldn't know who I was either. And actually for a while I didn't. Eileen looked down at Alice's small blonde head, nestled on the sleeve of her dressing gown. Neither did I, she said. Half past two in the morning. Outside, astronomical twilight. Crescent moon hanging low over the dark water. Tide returning now with a faint repeating rush over the sand. Another place, another time.
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Crimean Tatars benefit in this respect from a small but active circle of writers, poets, composers, and other creative artists, men and women who have found that eloquence. Rather than conventionally idealize, they visualize their community and place in phrases and images that reaffirm them aesthetically in the minds and hearts of their audience.
