"Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot."

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Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage

Rick Bragg

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”

Source : Dannie Abse, Jeremy Robson (1973). “Poetry Dimension”
“That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.”
“So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.”

Source : Mark Boal's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 7, 2010.
“I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.”
“Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide”

Source : Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Da Capo Press
“From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it”
“We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job,”

Source : "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.
“Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.”

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