"For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jon Lee Anderson

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.”
“...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?”

Source : Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press
“I'm going to kiss you now, and I don't know if I'll ever stop.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2011). “Providence”, p.312, Jamie McGuire
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Source : "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
“People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.”
“I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.”
“That's not writing, that's typing”
“I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.”

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