"Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them."

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Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

Philip Caputo

#War Quotes #Dark Quotes #People Quotes

“Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.”
“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.”
“There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.”
“I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.”

Source : "Park Geun-hye claims South Korea presidential victory" by Madison Park, Paula Hancocks, KJ Kwon, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.
“The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.”
“I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.”
“Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”
“My life style in a sense is kind of private.”

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