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Rob Thurman

"Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. â€œPistol whipping elderly women isnâ€™t precisely our mission statement, Cal.â€ I hadnâ€™t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasnâ€™t pistol-whippingâ€¦ unless she tried to come back in."

Source : Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.25, Penguin

Rob Thurman

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“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”
“I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.”

Source : Philip Levine (2011). “New Selected Poems”, p.221, Knopf
“I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip”
“"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?”
“If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?”
“Ive always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.”
“I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.”

Source : "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.

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