"With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that."

-- Linda Sue Park

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“Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.”
“I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.”

Source : "New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies to win World Series 4-2". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”
“Being humble is cooler than being famous.”
“Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.”
“True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”
“The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.”
“Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.”

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