Category: Verbatim

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Buck Banks

I know war as few men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

— Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), American general

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Buck Banks

Film is not part of the real world. This is why people will have sex on film, commit suicide on film, die of some wasting disease on film, commit murder on film. They’re adding material to the public dream. There’s a sense in which film is independent of the filmmaker, independent of the people who appear.

— Don DeLillo (1936- ), American writer

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Buck Banks

There are two secrets of life that nobody tells you: screwing and dying. What they tell you about is love and the hereafter. But it is screwing and dying that you have to deal with.

— Walker Percy (1916-1990) American Southern writer

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Buck Banks

When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death.

— J.P. Donleavy (1926- ), Irish American writer

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Trish
Pepsi

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.”

— Anna Sewell (1820-1878), Quaker, author of Black Beauty

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Buck Banks

To maintain that Slavery is in itself sinful, in the face of all that is said and written in the Bible upon the subject, with so many sanctions of the relation by the Deity himself, does not seem to me to be little short of blasphemous! It is a direct imputation upon the wisdom and justice, as well as the declared ordinances, of God, as they are written in the inspired oracles, to say nothing of their manifestations in the universe around us.

— Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), Vice President, Confederate States of America

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Buck Banks

And if the white man thought that Asians were a low, filthy nation, Asians could still smile with relief — at least they were not Africans. And if the white man thought that the Africans were a low, filthy nation, Africans in southern Africa could still smile — at least they were not bushmen. They all have their monsters.

— Bessie Head (1937-1986), South African writer, educator