"the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Trying Quotes #Stubborn Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.”
“Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.”
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
“Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.”
“I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.”
“I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.”
“Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.”
“you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.”

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