"I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper."

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Source : Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin

Erin McCarthy

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“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”
“Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.”
“The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.”
“True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
“Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.”
“I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.”

Source : Speech to the Athenians, 432 b.c.; cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).
“I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!”
“We are each otherâ€™s angels, we meet when it is time.”

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