"The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake."

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Tim O'Brien

#Way Quotes #Danger Quotes #Awake Quotes

“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
“It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.”
“I would say Im an optimist by nature.”
“The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.”

Source : "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 118), 1947.
“Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.”
“Hey, I'm Jeremy, and I play the baahhhssss.”
“Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?”
“And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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