David Ward

https://www.goodreads.com/bigfootdave

David’s Bookshelves

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the-south‎ (504)
biography‎ (427)
mysteries‎ (392)
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memoirs‎ (357)
gardening‎ (352)

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David’s Quotes

“Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

tags: christianity, religion

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“[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met.”
― Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

tags: politics, trump

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“Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it.”
― Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

tags: losers, politics, professional-wrestling

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“However it is defined, freedom is due, in part, to the fact that powerful nations do not always win wars and powerful men do not always win fights.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

tags: freedom, power

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“Like so many American tales, On the Road is about escape, about lighting out for the perpetually receding territory ahead.”
― William Plummer, The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady

tags: beat-generation, jack-kerouac, neal-cassady, u-on-the-road-u

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