Removing the history of that event from the overall context of the Battle of Berlin distorts the complex impact it had on the survivors. Moreover, it mythologizes and whitewashes a moment in the history of submerged life that, when
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“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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