"A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head."

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Andrei Platonov

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Birth Quotes

“It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.”
“We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America”
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.”
“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.”
“I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.”
“If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.”
“In light of the events on September 11, my country has told me that I should not cooperate with terrorists. I therefore am refusing to cooperate with members of Congress who are some of the most extreme terrorists in history.”

Source : Craig Rosebraugh (2004). “Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front”, p.220, Lantern Books
“Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.”

Source : Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee

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