"I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life."

-- Ben Fountain

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“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”
“We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.”
“Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.”
“The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.”
“I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.”
“Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isnâ€™t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?”
“All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.”
“God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.”

Source : "Fictional character: Balian of Ibelin". "Kingdom of Heaven", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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