"I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer."

-- Bill Keller

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“From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.”
“For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.”

Source : Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.133, Lantern Books
“Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Companyâ€™s in trouble, and we have to help them. Weâ€™re in reserve, so we have to go. And if weâ€™re shelled, weâ€™re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.”
“I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.”
“The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.”
“I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.”
“Books are like my one and only joy.”
“I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine.”

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