"And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed."

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Source : Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.58, Courier Corporation

Siegfried Sassoon

#Betrayal Quotes #War Quotes #Home Quotes

“A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!”
“This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we can. As a gay kid he'll be a natural leader. Put him in a macho bullshit environment and he's going to have a hard time. I don't want that to happen. (Let's also not forget Wei's immortal words to him nine minutes after he was born, when she first stared into those big brown eyes: "Oh, honey. Promose me you'll grow up to like boys. Because I don't want any other woman in your life except me.")”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.44, Penguin
“David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.”

Source : "The Seeds of the Global Warming Police State" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2007.
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.”

Source : "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.
“We have some really, really wonderful actors on the horizon.”

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