#i

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i see #journalism #journalists #laborers #literature

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#fully #lived #love #such #thing

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#feeling #had #happiness #him #loved

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#god #party #republican #republican party

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#diverse #home #home state #illinois #our

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact