"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

-- Donald Rumsfeld

#War Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Long Quotes

“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”
“Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.”
“Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.”
“Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.”
“I care about the children of Detroit.”
“This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.”
“Continual learning is the key to continual living.”
“As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.”

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