"Why in the world are you a Republican?"

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Source : Calvin Trillin (2006). “About Alice”, p.43, Random House

Calvin Trillin

#World Quotes #Republican Quotes

“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.”
“As a precaution, weâ€™re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.”
“Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.”
“Godâ€™s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.”
“From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.”

Source : Caryl Phillips (2010). “A New World Order”, p.192, Random House
“No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.”
“I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor”

Source : "Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.
“Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.”

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