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“We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?”
Source : "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Book by Richard Rhodes, p. 596, 1986.
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“The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.”
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“My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.”
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“I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.”
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“It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits”
Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.32, Penguin
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“He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.”
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“Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.”