"It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life."

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Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.109, Canongate Books

Ben Fountain

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“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
“We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.”
“To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help...”
“Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”
“One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.”
“For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.”
“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.”
“The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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