Quotes from Guy Delisle

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

Actually, the Burmese don't refer to her by name. They just call her "The Lady." It's like Voldemort in Harry Potter, "He Who Must Not Be Named.

And I certainly wouldn't demonize an entire people on the basis of 3 blurry photos and a few paintings

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Ouch, my butthole hurts, but I really need to have a look at that firestation.

Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.

Dictatorship means shut up, democracy means keep talking!

avec le temps qui se charge d'effacer les mauvais moments, la mémoire garde à jamais son côté naïf et stupidement positif.

Guy: "Hey, isn't that Karl up there?" Mr. Kyu: "You know Marx? Very good." Guy: "A bit... Doesn't everybody?" Mr. Kyu: "Oh no, not many capitalists do." Guy: "Really.

I'd been seen the day before in a neighborhood that wasn't up to revolutionary standards, photographing a pile of garbage cans. It's forbidden. Garbage is not a good souvenir of North Korea. There are so many beautiful things to photograph.

en todas las habitaciones, de todos los edificios, de toda Corea del Norte, hay colgadas en una pared las fotos de papá Kim y de su retoño. Excepto en los váteres... Of course.

In Bangladesh, there's a saying that if you get killed by a snake, its destiny... But if you get killed by a tiger, its just bad luck.

At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.