"Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole."

-- David James Duncan

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“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
“The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.”
“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.”
“Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow,”

Source : "Weekend Update" with Jane Curtin, snltranscripts.jt.org. January 15, 1977.
“We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the first members of that coalition.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.”
“Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.”
“Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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