"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place."

-- Cormac McCarthy

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“If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.”
“A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.”
“It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”
“Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.”
“On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'”

Source : "Twitter's Impact On Iran Protests Examined". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. June 19, 2009.
“Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.”
“Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?”
“I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.”

Source : John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell

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