"Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation."

-- Jean Parker

#Iraq Quotes #Quagmire Quotes #Occupation Quotes

“There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
“To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.”
“I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty”
“Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.”

Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.132, U of Nebraska Press
“Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.”
“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.”
“I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.”

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