If we now act quickly, it will still be possible to save many lives. If the drought victims receive assistance in time, many of them will be able to help themselves.


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But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and aff...
IRIS MURDOCH
These episodes of racism occur in cycles.
IRIS CHANG
Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu...
IRIS CHANG
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
IRIS CHANG
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an...
IRIS CHANG
The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG
While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not for...
IRIS MURDOCH
There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard...
IRIS APFEL
Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH
We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do...
IRIS APFEL
Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG
I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip ...
IRIS APFEL
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN
... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all...
IRIS APFEL
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH
What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH
I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL
...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY
Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH
I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were ...
IRIS APFEL
Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th...
IRIS APFEL
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi...
IRIS APFEL
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH
Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN
People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL
We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL