"Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else."

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Source : Gennifer Choldenko (2006). “Al Capone Does My Shirts”, p.142, Penguin

Gennifer Choldenko

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“We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.”
“It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.”
“Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.”
“Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.”

Source : John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”
“Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.”
“The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.”
“We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.”

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