"Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all."

-- John Cheever

#Friendship Quotes #Athletic Quotes #Exaltation Quotes

“The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.”
“Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest.”
“I'm just a tough old woman.”
“With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.”
“The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love....”
“I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.”
“Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That's where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist's booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in.”
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

Source : Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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