James W. Hall quotes

“It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.”
-- James W. Hall

Source : James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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“I love you,” I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I’m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.” Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.”

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

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

“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.”

Source : Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

“babies ain't cute / hungry.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”

“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

“Fate has a twisted sense of humor.”

“I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.”

Source : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

“Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. August 2004.

“How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?”