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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#development #every #exist #fabricated #how

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. ↗

— Robert A. Taft

#deterrent #earning #effort #hard #hard work

I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something. ↗

— Willie Mays

#blessed #body #exhausted #get #go

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. ↗

— John McCarthy

#between #brief #capitalism #countries #feudalism

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

#could #cruel #description #fool #fraud

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#deep #harmony #i #i am #know

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#i #i can #insofar #know #love

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. ↗