#rat

Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died long ago. Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claimed me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#separation #death

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.' ↗

— Al Gore

#bush #bush administration #closely #digital #editors

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. ↗

— Al Gore

#american #american values #basic #betrayed #change

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. ↗

— Al Gore

#democratic #democratic party #need #party #remake

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#annual #conference #family #government #had

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#born #come #considerate #every #every man

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs. ↗

— Gotye

#bunch #give #gives #greater #hope

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#carrying #duration #favors #fortune #her

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #condition #did #elements #him