"[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim."

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Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.541, Regnery Publishing

Whittaker Chambers

#Sides Quotes #Losing Quotes #Socialism Quotes

“After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.”
“It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right.”
“Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.”
“Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA
“By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.”
“I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.”
“. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.226, Penguin
“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.”

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