"Everything I love about America is fragile."

-- Graydon Carter

#America Quotes

“Courage is acting in spite of fear.”
“It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.”
“Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.”
“As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.”
“Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.”
“All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.”
“Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.89, Taylor & Francis
“I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.”

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