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James T. Farrell
"Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug."
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Source : James T. Farrell (2001). “Studs Lonigan”, p.22, Penguin
James T. Farrell
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“The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.”
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“I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.”
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“A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.”
Source : Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr
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“If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.”
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“I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.”
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“Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.”
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“Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are”
