"If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."

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Source : James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

James Lee Burke

#Tragedy Quotes #Skins Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.”
“And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'”
“Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!”
“Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.”
“The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.”
“Though the archbishop may rightly argue that they are objectively wrong in their positions, I don't understand how he can presume to know the consciences of Vice President [Joe] Biden and Senator [Tim] Kaine sufficiently to question the genuineness of their faith and condemn them personally.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.”
“David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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