I had a heard a good deal of talk about American realism and also of their ingenuousness, qualities that would seem to be mutually exclusive. To us a realist is always a pessimist.
--Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in The Labyrinth of Solitude
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ang ganda!
Posted by: hazel | 06 July 2009 at 15:05
Nice one!
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