"I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough."

-- Anais Nin

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“The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and ***** were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".”
“The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.”
“The world is coming to an end. Please log off....”
“I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.”
“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”

Source : "Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World". Book by Colman McCarthy (p. 243), 1984.
“I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.”
“The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.”
“While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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