"When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy."

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Source : Chester Himes (2011). “The Crazy Kill”, p.158, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Chester Himes

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“I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.”
“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”

Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.”

Source : "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" by Albert Eisele, historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.
“I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.”
“Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.”
“The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.”

Source : "Ebersol’s Parting Thoughts". blogs.wsj.com. May 25, 2011.

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