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“Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.”
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“There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.”
Source : David Halberstam (2015). “Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam”, p.7, Hachette UK
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“Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.”
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“I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.”
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“A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”
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“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.”
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“I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.”
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“The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.”
Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2
