"I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book."

-- Wendy C. Ortiz

“I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.”
“I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.”
“...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy. Its an insidious progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line.”

Source : "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10". Book by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson, www.motherjones.com. June 12, 2007.
“You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.”
“I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”
“When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.”
“There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.”
“I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife”

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