"If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness"

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Geraldine McCaughrean

#Fall Quotes #White Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.”
“Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.”
“We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
“You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.”
“I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.”
“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.”
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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