"The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Francisco Goldman

#Writing Quotes #Police Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.”
“We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.”
“When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.”
“It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but that obviously was true before as well. I also think it's now easier to get attention for a small attack that goes off in a random market. It's almost like there's a marketplace for terror in the media, and these people are supplying the attacks, knowing that the media will cover them sensationally.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press
“What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic”
“Why would anybody not own a gun?”

Source : "USA TODAY survey: More Republicans in Congress own guns" by Paul Singer and Gregory Korte, www.usatoday.com. February 5, 2013.
“I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.”

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