"Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came back from Iraq and said, "We need to have a conversation, I know exactly what it is." It was just this sort of sense of something missing and then trying to write toward what that was, and to solicit from other people a sense of what that might be."

-- Phil Klay

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Missing Quotes

“The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.”
“O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the very stones of the wall; and say what thou wilt, either by setting before them alluring promises or dreadful threatenings, yet people are hardened against both, none relenting for what they have done, or concerned about it.”
“We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.”
“Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.”
“To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.”

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.”

Source : "Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' video: empowerment, Lou Diamond Phillips-style". www.mtv.com. December 14, 2012.
“Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.”
“Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.”

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