"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits"

-- Ruth Benedict

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“The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.”
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”
“Always beware an unsigned architectural design.”
“He who dares not (reason), is a slave.”
“We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”
“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.”
“And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.”
“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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