"Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed."

-- C. S. Forester

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“Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.”
“Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.”
“My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.”
“Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway”
“I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.”

Source : "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.
“The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?”
“I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.”
“When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.”

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