Failed States Index

Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:

    I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
    Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

    On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband’s dinners.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
    Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)