"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."

-- Hanoi Hannah

#War Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.”
“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.”
“Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?”
“Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.”
“You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.”
“I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!”
“Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.”

Source : Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”
“I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?”

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