"Fatherâ€™s silence is not merely the absence of sound. Itâ€™s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches."

-- Franny Billingsley

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“Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.”
“I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.”
“Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.”
“Life is like a sewer what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.”
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.”
“Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,”

Source : "Friday on your mind" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.
“I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.”

Source : Terence Rattigan (1977). “The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: The sleeping prince. Separate tables. Variation on a theme. Ross. Heart to heart”

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