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control, evil, law, mankind, people, state
People are Evil
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Den som skall styra en stat och upprätta dess lagar måste utgå från att människor är onda och att de är beredda att ge efter för sina onda böjelser när tillfälle ges.”

Niccoló Machiavelli


Algeria, world
A whole Playful World
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“One very graceful impression is that of sunset over the port and the terraces of the upper town, and the gay Algerian women; a whole playful world in pink and green on the slightly blue-tinted white of the uneven and disorderly terraces. It’s from the little lattice window of Madame Ben Aben that you discover all this.”

Isabelle Eberhardt, excerpts from her journals


africa, hostile, land
The Predestined Land
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Africa ingests and assimilates everything that is hostile to it. Perhaps it is the Predestined Land from which the light that will regenerate the world will one day emerge!”

Isabelle Eberhardt


affilation, home, live, place, portable, root, value
Being Rooted in Affiliations not Places
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Japan is therefore an ideal place because I never will be a true citizen here, and will always be an outsider, however long I live here and however well I speak the language. And the society around me is as comfortable with that as I am… I am not rooted in a place, I think, so much as in certain values and affiliations and friendships that I carry everywhere I go; my home is both invisible and portable. But I would gladly stay in this physical location for the rest of my life, and there is nothing in life that I want that it doesn’t have.”

Pico Iyer, interview in Wild River Review (November 19, 2007)


isolate, story, underrate, writing
Orwell on Writing
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Jag var ganska ensam vilket gjorde att jag rätt snabbt la mig med en del osunda manér som fick mig att bli impopulär under hela min skoltid. Jag hade det ensamma barnets ovana att hitta på historier eller prata med påhittade personer. Jag tror också att mina litterära ambitioner härstammar från känslan av att vara isolerade och undervärderad. Jag visste att jag hade ordets gåva samt kraften att orka möta obehagliga fakta. Jag kunde känna att detta skapade en slags privat sfär där jag kunde få revansch och ge igen för mitt eget misslyckade vardagsliv.”

George Orwell, “Why I Write”


story, story-teller, wise
The Story Is Wiser
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Berättelsen är alltid klyftigare än berättaren.”

Kjell Espmark, “Albatrossen på däcket”


process, rewriting, writing
Bergman on Writing
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Jag skriver och skriver om. Arbetsböckerna vittnar (ofta till min senare förvåning) om långvariga processer. Dialogerna genomgår hårda kontroller, bantas, förtätas, byggs ut, kasseras. Ord prövas och ändras. I slutomgången försvinner stora sjok, ’kill your darlings’.”

Ingmar Bergman
, “Bilder”


ownership
Ownership has No Reason
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

”Det finns ingen anledning att äga någonting.”

Karl Templer, stylist (in New York Times)


see, shut
How to See
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin, painter


airports, movable, multinational, planes, restless, soul
The Multinational Soul
  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school; I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.”

Pico Iyer, in Harper’s (April 1993)