"The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem relatedâ€”yet."

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Source : Timothy Egan (2006). “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Timothy Egan

“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
“In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. â€œAlways remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you donâ€™t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”

Source : Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster
“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”
“Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!”
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
“The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.”
“Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'”

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