"Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave."

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Source : George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

George Pickett

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“I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.”
“Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.”
“I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.”
“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
“May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.”

Source : "Bahrain will not digress from reform" by Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2011.
“My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. Its endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.”
“Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.”

Source : William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand
“By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.”

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