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“The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.”
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“But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.”
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“I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.”
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“The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.”
Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster
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“I can love the whole world except my neighbor.”
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“War is ninety percent information.”
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“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
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“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”
Source : John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House
