"I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past.""

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

John Edgar Wideman

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.”
“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”
“And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.”
“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”
“The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.”
“The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.”
“We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.”
“We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?”

Source : "Naruto: Shippūden". Anime series by Masashi Kishimoto, 1997.

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