"There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter."

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Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage

Tony Horwitz

#People Quotes #Intimacy Quotes #Latter Quotes

“There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.”
“I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.”
“I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.”
“My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.”
“Sound comes to us over time. You donâ€™t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.”
“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.”

Source : Source: www.caperi.com
“I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.”

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“There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.”

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