"We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood."

-- S. E. Hinton

#Real Quotes #War Quotes #Kids Quotes

“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”

Source : Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4356, Delphi Classics
“Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.”

Source : Ronald Blythe (1984). “Characters & Their Landscapes”, Harvest Books
“There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.”
“These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.”
“I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.”
“This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?”
“If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.”
“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.”

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