"World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Brother Quotes #Stars Quotes #War Quotes

“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.”

Source : Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.
“She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.”

Source : Damon Runyon (1981). “The bloodhounds of Broadway and other stories”, William Morrow & Company
“I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.”
“I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.”
“You probably don't have much of a choice.”

Source : Charles Petzold (1996). “Programming Windows 95”
“I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.”
“I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.”

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