"I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.”
“I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.”
“I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.”

Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.
“We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.”
“I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event”

Source : "John Turturro on "La Tregua (The Truce)"". Interview with Richard Schwartz, filmscouts.com. 1997.
“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
“My standards are so high because of who I serve but it doesn't put any water on my fire for winning. I'm still an intense person. You can be intense and saved. You can compete and still be saved. You can challenge a guy and still be saved. There was nothing soft about me as a player and there isn't anything soft about me as a coach. You want to be a man of integrity and you want the players to know that you care about them. Whether or not they still like you or not is a whole other deal.”

Source : "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.”

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