"It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him."

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Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books

Murray Kempton

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“All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo”
“The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.”

Source : Tom Wells (1985). “A vision for missions”, Banner of Truth
“The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.”
“For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.”
“There is a resentment and rejection of liberal culture. That culture is not available to many people in America. And the liberal coastal elite, who may never have been to rural America, just think everyone there is racist and homophobic and judge them to be terrible people. They think there is nothing wrong to be making jokes about 'meth heads', who are actually a group of people with poverty-related drug issues. They don't see their own hypocrisy. I think this is a huge issue and one that cannot be ignored.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
“On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”

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