"I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but."

-- Molly Crabapple

#Cutting Quotes #Thumbs Quotes

“When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.”
“When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”
“Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.”
“The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.”
“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.”
“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”
“We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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