"Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?"

--

Hugh Prather

“I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.”
“The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.”
“For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.”
“I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

Source : Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.115, Courier Corporation
“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.”
“The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii...”
“Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.”

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