"Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent."

-- William J. Brennan

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“It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.”
“You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.”
“Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.”
“The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up”
“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

Source : Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
“Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”

Source : The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}
“Writing is a constant exercise in longing.”

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