"Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session."

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Source : "The Good Word & Other Words" by Wilfrid Sheed, Penguin, (pp. 107-108), 1980.

Wilfrid Sheed

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“Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.”
“They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.”
“Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words”

Source : "[Cannes Interview] ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.
“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Source : Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK
“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get wonâ€™t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”
“I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.”
“At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

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