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But much of the company Mrs. Stanford kept was otherworldly. She told a San Francisco Examiner reporter that “I am never alone. Either my husband or son are with me all the time. They never come together, but in turns. Their stay is limited
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“Hadn’t Gandhi-ji said, An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?”
― The Henna Artist
― The Henna Artist
“In the early years of the war, I fell in love, I learned to ride a bike, and I discovered firsthand just how much blood could fit on the inside of a grown man. The world kept turning, and people kept dying, and for the next few years I sat under the leafy green and wrote about the dead.”
― Some People Need Killing
― Some People Need Killing
“An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it’s like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It’s not happenstance. It means that I’m the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that’s why it’s different now.”
― Blood Work
― Blood Work
“That’s what my life was about for a long time,” he added quietly. “I was searching out evil. That was my job. And I was good at it but in the long run it was better than me. It got the best of me. I think—no, I know—that’s what took my heart.”
― Blood Work
― Blood Work
“Johnny Otis died in 2012, aged ninety, having achieved more than most of us could hope to if we lived five times that long, and having helped many more people to make the most of their talents. He died three days before the discovery of whom he was most proud, Etta James, and she overshadowed him in the obituaries, as he would have wanted.”
― A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Volume 2: From the Million Dollar Quartet to the Fab Four
― A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Volume 2: From the Million Dollar Quartet to the Fab Four
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