"Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush."

-- Jello Biafra

#Loyalty Quotes #Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes

“When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.”
“Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.”
“I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC”
“There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.”
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

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