"Violence is the instinctive response to fear."

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Source : Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.71, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

#Violence Quotes #Response Quotes

“I'm an affectionate person.”
“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”
“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”
“Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.”
“I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.”

Source : "Cowboy Junkies intensify the energy on 'Miles From Our Home'" by Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. October 28, 1998.
“Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.”
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”
“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”

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