"He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important."

-- Tim O'Brien

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“It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)”
“When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.”
“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.”
“But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.”
“I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.”
“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”

Source : Rufus Choate's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.

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