#them

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#been #city #extent #ghetto #go

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish. ↗

— James Jones

#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#happy #i #onstage #presents #themselves

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#across #exactly #generations #i #know

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. ↗

— David Antin

#go #happy #i #listen #see

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#collected #i #into #love #series

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#against #i #just #police #them

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared. ↗