"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."

-- William J. Brennan

#Pain Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.”
“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”
“I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.”
“Unless it hurts, unless thereâ€™s some vulnerability there, I donâ€™t think youâ€™re going to get good photographs.”
“Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.”

Source : Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2012.
“I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”

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