"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

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Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Safran Foer

#One Day Quotes #Someone You Love Quotes

“I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.”
“Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.”
“The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”
“We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.”

Source : Source: historynewsnetwork.org
“In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?”
“God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.”

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