"We read to find life, in all its possibilities."

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Claire Messud

#Possibility Quotes

“I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.48
“Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.”

Source : "Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 06, 2010.
“I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.”
“The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.”

Source : Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway
“You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.”
“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”
“A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.”
“A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.”

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