"Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat."

-- Augustus William Hare

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“I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.”

Source : "Her dark materials". Interview With Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.
“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”
“I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.”
“Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.' 'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?' 'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2013). “Humans of New York”, p.290, St. Martin's Press
“One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.”
“John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would expect to see him. So I guess he showed up at his old seat in the Senate. Nobody's going to look for him there.”
“We all need to unite behind stopping evil, whether it's Timothy McVeigh who is the terrorist in Oklahoma City, or it's Muslim terrorists in Barcelona, or it's somebody flying a plane into the World Trade Center, it's all evil.”

Source : "'This Week' Transcript 8-20-17: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Jeh Johnson". abcnews.go.com. August 20, 2017.
“The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.”

Source : Frederick Rolfe (1931). “A History of the Borgias”

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