"The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life."

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Source : Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press

Leston Havens

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“I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.”

Source : "Democratic fund-raiser takes Fifth Amendment in pardons probe" by March 1, 2001, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2001.
“I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.”
“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
“Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.”
“I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.”

Source : "Liam Hemsworth Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, the Sequels, THE EXPENDABLES 2, TIMELESS, Dito Montiel’s EMPIRE STATE and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 23, 2012.
“Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.”
“Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”
“We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.”

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