Eric Reeves quotes

“There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be worthwhile. They may be futile, but it doesn't mean they're not important, in a moral sense and in an historical sense.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.”
-- Eric Reeves

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“You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.”

Source : "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

“The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.”

“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”

“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”

“I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.”

“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”

“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.

“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”