"We will have a more just society as soon as we want one."

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Source : George Packer (2015). “Blood of the Liberals”, p.402, Macmillan

George Packer

“The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.”
“One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.”
“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.”
“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”
“Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.”
“The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.”

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