"The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001."

-- John Podhoretz

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“I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.213, Macmillan
“In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.”
“Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”
“You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.”
“The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.207
“I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.”
“I had a tumor. But it was great.”
“the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.”

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