"Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow."

-- Linda Ellerbee

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Wire Quotes

“You canâ€™t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.”
“I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesnâ€™t ever give you more than you can handle, but Iâ€™m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!”
“Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.”
“No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Oct 20, 2012
“Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated
“I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.”
“I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.”
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion.”

Source : "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

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