"Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero."

-- Ron Shelton

#Hero Quotes #Epic Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.”
“There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.”
“Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.”

Source : "Harry Reid Gave An All-Out Defense Of Obama's Decision To Free Bergdahl On The Senate Floor" by Colin Campbell, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.
“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 07, 2014
“A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.”
“At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.”
“I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.”

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