"I'm playin' the music I like."

-- Mose Allison

“But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ...”

Source : Margery Sharp (2016). “Britannia Mews: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.”
“People can say whatever they want about whatever they want.”
“There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.”
“These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constant feeling of outrage that was in the minds of people and the hearts of people.”
“Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.”
“So much of the news was invented for propaganda.”

Source : Elsa Morante (2015). “History: A Novel”, p.73, Steerforth
“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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