"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."

-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now”
“If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.”
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
“Liberty of the people is not my liberty!”
“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

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