"We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

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“Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.”

Source : 'Gotham' (1764) bk. 1, l. 215
“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.”

Source : Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.”
“How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.”
“My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.”

Source : Source: somedayprods.com
“Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Blaustein, aphotoeditor.com. September 23, 2013.
“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”
“I was a really pretentious teenager,”

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