"For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

James Vance

#Read Between The Lines Quotes #Stories Quotes #May Quotes

“Youâ€™re like Marilyn Monroe,â€™ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous â€œThank Youâ€. Interrupting, he adds, â€˜Youâ€™re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because youâ€™re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say â€œHey! This toy is broken!â€ and toss you aside without feeling bad.”
“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
“There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.”
“Me trying to kill people wasn't as bad as me tearing people down and making people cry and ripping them apart, because words never heal. That's what I've learned. I'd rather raise my son and tell him, "If you get in a fight with your friend, just punch him. Don't say anything, because the next day he doesn't get over that."'”
“Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.”
“If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.”
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

Source : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
“Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.”

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