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One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead; ↗


— Ethan Canin


#elections

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. ↗


— Sheri Holman


#election #elections

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic. ↗


— Cormac McCarthy


#nihilism #philosophy #theology #elections

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ↗


— Jeannette Walls


#beasts #mankind #perfection #mankind

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces. ↗


— Kate Morton


#memory #war #perspective

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. ↗


— James Crumley


#detective-novel #mystery #alcohol

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. ↗


— Orlando Bloom


#death #effects #explosions #family #human

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted. ↗


— Jan de Bont


#approached #delighted #directed #film #first

MP3's are perfect. ↗


— Kristin Hersh


#perfect

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. ↗


— Hermann Hesse


#home #intersect #like #looks #never






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