"There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war."

-- George McGovern

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“I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress”
“It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.”
“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”
“I've always been drawn to city skylines.”
“Shape your coat according to your cloth.”
“Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.”
“Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.”
“Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.”

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