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“I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”
Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books
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“If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance”
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“Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.”
Source : James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books
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“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
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“I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.”
Source : "Rob Van Winkle: 'Ice Ice Baby' never gets old" by Julieanne Smolinski, www.today.com. June 14, 2012. 
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“Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.”
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“Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.”
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“The only thing I like about rich people is their money.”
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“What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.”
Source : Piri Thomas (1974). “Down These Mean Streets”, Vintage
