"With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause."

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Source : "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

Francine Prose

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Night Quotes

“One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.”

Source : "Come to the Bash". Savage Love Column, www.thestranger.com. February 09, 2006.
“I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.”

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.53, Courier Corporation
“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.”
“Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.”
“I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.”

Source : "Q&A: Edward Norton comes to grips with De Niro and The Boss". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 9, 2010.
“The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.”
“Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.”

Source : Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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