I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was kinda blonde and bearded and had an afro and was bushy like a sun. So I don't know, he named me Surya Das but who knows.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H. M. S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. "
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
It's love that makes the world go round.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.
An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
You've faced horrors in these past weeks. . . I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.