"It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam."

-- Paul Begala

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“The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.”
“Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.”

Source : Geoffrey Dutton (1981). “The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call of 47 of Australia's Greatest Heroes and Heroines”, Angus & Robertson Publishers
“Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...”
“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

Source : William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”
“The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.”
“Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.”
“A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.”

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