"A writer's work is to witness things."

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Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield

Edward Hoagland

#Witness Quotes

“Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.”

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“Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.”
“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
“The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.”
“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
“Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.”
“Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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