"I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration."

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Martin Walker

#Writing Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Way Quotes

“The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.”
“God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.”
“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

Source : Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.37, Faber & Faber
“Patriarchal life, youâ€™re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!”
“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”

Source : Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing
“Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct”
“I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.”
“I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.”

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