"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together."

-- Joseph Pulitzer

#Fall Quotes #Together Quotes #Republic Quotes

“Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.”
“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

Source : Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge
“Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit.”
“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
“Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action”
“Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?”
“War is capitalism with the gloves off.”
“But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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