"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."

-- Tim O'Brien

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“It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”
“Every man meets his Waterloo at last.”
“Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.”
“I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.”
“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.”

Source : Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"
“When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.”

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