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“If you get good at keeping secrets, who knows what kind you’ll end up keeping”

“How will history judge us fairly if it doesn’t have the truth to read?”

“She accepted her fate largely, because she had no idea what it was to be. In the final moments of her life, she reassured herself that at least she hadn’t added to brutal death, the indignity of wetting herself in the face of such incomprehensible horror.”

“The truth can’t be wrong, even if it is ugly or shocking. We need to be clear about what we are doing, and how we are doing it and allow persons such as yourselves to respond to it. That is the honesty on which a mature culture must be based.”

“The choice between compliance or death didn’t make compliance any more pleasurable. They were defeated, deprived of their culture and their way of life. Facing a future determined by alien minds.”

“It saddens me that we believe the same words, the very same ones, but value them so differently. That difference has led directly to this bloodshed”

“A grieving person needs something to occupy his mind. Something to take care of. It’s not a case of who wants a dog, it’s a case of who needs a dog.”

“It’s alright to want what you can’t have. You learn to live with it. I tell myself that, and mostly I believe it.”

Because one Kraken attack just isn’t enough! 😋

“no matter how it tries, the skyscraper hasn’t yet conquered the forest’s spirit, it’s immensity, it’s melancholy.”

“I stagger outside, delighted to finally be breathing fresh air. I like the night and sky more than the gods of man.”

“Nature abhors miracles that go on too long.”

“It was several minutes before Hunter could get them silent again. And when they looked back at him, he saw the glint in their eyes, fed by visions of gold.”

While traveling from NY city to Canada, through the Catskill/Adirondack mountains.

“There, in nature’s silence, amid the room’s simplicity, amid the remoteness from civilization, he decides to stay for good, to cut all ties with what his life was and never again let anyone know he’s alive.”

“We sail through New York harbor. A tremendous site despite, or because of, the fog. Order, power, economic strength, they’re all here. The heart trembles before so much remarkable inhumanity.”

“The importance of having the guts to say ‘yes’ to the things that turn you on is matched only by the impact of learning to say ‘no’ to the things that don’t.”

“My security guard told me that he had gotten a message from friends of his at the FBI, letting him know that Turkish intelligence was tracking me and my movements.”

“‘Shut up and sing’ is really a comment that comes from someone struggling to reconcile the fact that the artist they admire have political beliefs that are different from their own. Rather than examining the validity of those beliefs, they try to shut down the conversation before it starts.”