"No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life."

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Source : Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw (1970). “Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

Richard Aldington

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“You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace.”

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“Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.”
“Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.”
“The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.”
“He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. â€œEleven out of twelve work fine. Iâ€™d say thatâ€™s better chances than getting an ***** with a blind date and women still try.”
“In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.”
“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.”
“I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.”

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