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“As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.”
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“I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.”
Source : Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.
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“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”
Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.”
Source : Margaret Millar (1947). “Experiment in Springtime: A Novel”, New York : Random House
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“Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.”
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“The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.”
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“Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.”
Source : Source: www.believermag.com
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“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
