"Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard."

-- Jeff Flake

#Country Quotes #Race Quotes #Bars Quotes

“The thing that impressed me then as now about New Yorkâ€¦ was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorantâ€¦ the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.”
“If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.”
“In hawthorn-time the heart grows light.”
“The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built.”
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
“It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.”
“In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.”
“There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.”

Source : William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.89, Penguin

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