"I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse."

-- Malachy McCourt

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“During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.”

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“You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'”
“Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.”
“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.”
“Attitude is altitude.”
“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
“...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.”
“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”

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