"My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s."

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Source : Usenet article, 2003.

James Nicoll

#War Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Example Quotes

“I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.”
“No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.”
“I want to be young for the longest time possible.”
“California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.”
“Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.”
“It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.”

Source : "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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