"Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace."

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Source : Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

Alexandra Fuller

#Honor Quotes #Done Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
“Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”
“Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.”
“In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.”
“I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.”
“Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.”
“I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.”
“I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.”

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