"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs"

-- Sara Paretsky

#Chicago Quotes #Cubs Quotes

“Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.”
“Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.”
“Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.”
“To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.”
“If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.”
“Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.”

Source : Sir Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read (1994). “A One-man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press”, Freedom Press (CA)
“Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.”
“John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.”

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