"It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing."

-- Cormac McCarthy

“As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.”
“When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.”
“We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.”
“Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.”
“It was very clear, even from long before Donald Trump got in this race, when he would talk to Republicans, the number-one concern they had about Jeb Bush was whether he was too rusty for this, and whether he was going to be strong enough to stand up to Hillary Clinton.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
“A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.”
“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

Source : Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com
“A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.”

Source : Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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