"Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart."

-- Margot Livesey

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“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”

Source : "Letter from the Archive: John Luther Adams" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. April 18, 2014.
“I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'”
“There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2
“I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.”
“The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.”
“Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.”
“Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.”

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