"When you start to die, don't."

--

Source : The New York Times, August 14, 2009.

Frank Buckles

“After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.”
“You don't try to do more than you should.”
“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”
“But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.”
“Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage
“I never liked my own species.”
“Spaghetti is no food for fighters,”
“Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.”

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