Quotes From the Week of 11/17/08

"I can't go to my old barber shop now. I've gotta have my barber come to some undisclosed location to cut my hair."
President-elect Barack Obama, on adjusting to his and his family's new reality, and the "certain loneliness to the job" of president

"If [I want] protection for Mullah Omar, the international community has two choices: Remove me or leave."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, on his offer of safe passage to the militant Taliban leader and Osama bin Laden ally Mohammed Omar, in exchange for negotiation talks

"My job is to tell the British people the truth about the British economy—the truth that it is the worst-prepared economy in the world for the recession."
George Osborne, the opposition Conservative Party's top spokesman on economic matters, after being rebuked by the prime minister for publicly warning of a collapse of the pound

"His first question to the doctor was: 'Will I be able to have children?'."
Blassius Hanczuch, a friend of the German doctor who saved Adolf Hitler's life after the WWI Battle of the Somme. A recently discovered transcript of a conversation between the doctor and Hitler's priest confirmed a rumor that the führer lost a testicle in the fight.

"My father told me what his most important books were. He named 'Laura' as one of them. One doesn't name a book one intends to destroy."
Dmitri Nabokov, son of "Lolita" novelist Vladimir Nabokov, on his decision to publish his father's final manuscript— reportedly "The Original of Laura"—despite the writer's wish that the work be burned after his death

SOURCES FROM TOP: CBS NEWS, THE WASHINGTON POST (2), UK TELEGRAPH, BBC

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