Robert Micallef is an economist, university lecturer and Malta editor for Eurobarometer. He is also a contributing editor for aboutmalta.com, the online guide to everything about the Maltese islands.

www.robertmicallef.com/blog

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Music, Cinema, Drama, Sport, Politics, Economics, Diplomacy, European Affairs, Journalism, History

Morrissey, Smiths, Lloyd Cole, Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order, Portishead, Tricky, Björk, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, Gotan Project, Edith Piaf, Battiato, Bach, Tchaikovsky

La Vie en Rose, Elizabeth - The Golden Age, The Lives of Others, Across the Universe, Sleuth, Feast of Love, Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge, Hamlet, Pulp (filmed in Malta with Michael Caine), Midnight Express, Frida, A Clockwork Orange, Chocolat, anything by Ken Russell and Stephen

Evelyn Waugh, Stendhal, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klima, Czeslaw Milosz, Oliver Friggier, Guze Ellul Mercer, Francis Ebejer, Immanuel Mifsud, Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, John Steinbeck, Proust, Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, VS Naipaul, Thomas Pynchon, Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Hemingway

You cannot step twice into the same river; for new water is always flowing onto you. (Heraclitus)
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. (Kant)
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. (Dostoevsky)
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. (Proust)