"Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant."

-- David Levithan

#Memories Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Tricks Quotes

“By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.”
“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag
“Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us talking about getting guns out of the schools. How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems without violence?”
“I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”

Source : "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.
“A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial in that way that only New Yorkers are. My points of reference were really insular. They were insular in that fantastic New York way, but they didn't go much beyond that. I didn't have any sense of class and geography, because the economy of New York is so specific. So I definitely had access and exposure to a huge variety of people that I wouldn't have had if I'd stayed in New York - much more so in Nebraska even than in L.A.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.”

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