"The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself."

-- Robert Warshow

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“Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”
“Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.91, Candlewick Press
“Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.”

Source : Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
“The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.”
“I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.”
“Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.”

Source : "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.
“New Rule: All Fox News employees must now refer to President Bush as "my liege". If they are going to treat President Bush like he's an infallible king, they need to start addressing him as if he was an infallible king. And they can do this by addressing him as "my liege".”
“That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.”

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