Robert Boivin

“In his memoirs, Nixon explains why he decided not to contest the Illinois results. He was concerned that a challenge to the legitimacy of a presidential race would have hurt the nation’s standing in the world, he says. Perhaps more sincere was the other reason he gave: his concern that if he did contest the result “[c]harges of ‘sore loser’ would follow me through history and remove any possibility of a further political career.”
― Adam Cohen, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley–His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

“When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“As the Congressman rose, I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world was not to change it but to change how one saw it.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer