"In violence, we forget who we are"

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Source : On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

Mary McCarthy

#Violence Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Forget Quotes

“It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me”
“Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.”
“A tenor is not a man but a disease.”
“Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.”
“The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE.”
“Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck”
“Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.”
“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148

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