Quotes
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Charles Portis

"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band."

Source : "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

Charles Portis

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“I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries.”

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“...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast that we acquired them through our own efforts or that they were passed on to us as an inheritance. I say nothing is ours except what is in our hearts, what belongs to our souls, what cannot be taken away by anyone.”

Source : John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.91, Paulist Press
“High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
“I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.”
“All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.”
“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”

Source : John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”
“The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.”

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