"It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in."

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Source : James Wolcott (2013). “Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”, p.390, Anchor

James Wolcott

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Believe Quotes

“What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.”
“She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.”
“The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent”
“You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.”
“The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.”
“We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.”
“Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.”
“All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.”

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