Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. <span...
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Stephen Fry
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate...
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Aberjhani
That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.
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Thomas Geoghegan
More Quotes By Joe Sacco
A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides-- I must be doing something right, ' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.
The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.
I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The...
Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!
