"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."

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Franz Kafka

#Travel Quotes #Taken Quotes #Two Quotes

“I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)”
“Weâ€™re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.”
“Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.”
“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
“Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
“It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.”

Source : "Enough is Enough" by Michael Rogers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.
“Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.”
“My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.”

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