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“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”
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“Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”
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“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”
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“If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”
Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.”
Source : Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”
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“There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.”
Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.262, Open Road Media
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“I want to play until the end.”
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“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”
Source : Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.