"In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front."

-- Philip Caputo

#Distance Quotes #War Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“I guess my writing has changed as my life has.”
“My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press
“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”
“Did you write the words, or the lyrics?”
“I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.”
“A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.”
“You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.”
“It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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