"Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins."

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Hilary Mantel

#Sweet Quotes #Lying Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.”
“I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)”
“On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck — the traffic jams, the rainstorms — was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge.”

Source : Michael Lang (2009). “The Road to Woodstock”, p.4, Harper Collins
“You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.”
“You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.”
“I believe I can do things people think are impossible.”
“The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.”
“I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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