"Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory."

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Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

Stephen Vincent Benet

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“My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.”

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“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
“There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.”
“The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”
“I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.”
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.”
“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”
“I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.”

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