"Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story."

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Charles D'Ambrosio

#Mistake Quotes #Caring Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.”

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“Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.”
“An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.”
“Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer”
“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”
“My ice is so cold, it should come on a cone.”
“At first I didn't dig country.”
“I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.”

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