"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life."

-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“cleverness is a disease.”
“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

Source : 1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.
“Well, people from the "me" generation use photography to show off what they are doing, to show the world themselves and their friends. Those sort of diarized accounts have always been there. But the phenomena of making those diaries public is new, isn't it?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.”
“If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"”
“When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.”
“In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.”
“The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.”

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