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It makes me think of dead people. And white people. And I start to puke.”
“Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.”
― Dragon Tears
― Dragon Tears
“She had a cheerful countenance, and that sometimes disguised her habit of looking on the world with what she called “detached malevolence.”
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
― Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
“The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.”
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
― Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
“It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“One day during the siege, Grant was observed walking the outer line when he encountered a mule-team driver beating and cursing one of the mules. He ordered the man to stop. The animal’s abuser, seeing a man with a blouse and no sign of rank, turned and began to swear at him. Grant had the man arrested and brought to his headquarters. Only then did the mule driver realize whom he had insulted. The man was ordered to be tied up by his thumbs. When released, the contrite soldier apologized for his language, telling Grant he did not know to whom he was speaking. Grant explained that he had punished the soldier not because of what he’d said to his commanding general: “I could defend myself, but the mule could not.”
― American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
― American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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