"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."

-- Richard Attenborough

“I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.”

Source : Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company
“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”
“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
“Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.”

Source : Source: www.ft.com
“Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.”
“Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.”
“One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.”
“You show me what someone listens to, Iâ€™ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)”

Source : Tad Williams (2012). “The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar 1”, p.125, Hachette UK

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