"Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are."

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Source : Stephen L. Carter (2007). “New England White”, Knopf

Stephen L. Carter

#Gossip Quotes #Listening Quotes #Rumor Quotes

“Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.”
“We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.”
“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?”
“It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.”
“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”
“Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.”
“If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.”

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