"We want someone to bring us the news."

-- William Gaddis

#Want Quotes #News Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.”

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“Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.”
“I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.”
“Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.”
“Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?”
“... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.”
“When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.”
“An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.”

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