"Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life."

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Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

Antonio Porchia

#Life Quotes #Distance Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.”

Source : "Romney stirs 'birther' controversy, Akin to stay in Senate race". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.
“I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.”
“Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.”
“Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.”
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
“So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, â€™68, â€™70, would you do things differently?”
“I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”
“[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

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