"I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt"

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Source : Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.101, Macmillan

Darynda Jones

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“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”

Source : "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
“More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth”
“Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.”

Source : William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books
“Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.”
“I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.”
“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”
“Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.”

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