"In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed."

-- Tim O'Brien

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“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”
“Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.”
“Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.”
“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.”
“If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions”

Source : "Technology: Can We Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?" by Jim Selman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2013.
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

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