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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up…

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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It…
Perception of a state is not the state.
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;…
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and…

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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last… — Derek Jacobi
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. — Gyorgy Ligeti
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee — Gyorgy Ligeti
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It… — M. John Harrison
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.… — Michael Flatley
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.… — KatÃ³ Lomb
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot… — Eddie Redmayne
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But… — Theodore von Karman
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. — Bela Lugosi
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to… — Cory Monteith
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.… — Ray Bradbury

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