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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again. — Ulysses S. Grant

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. — John F. Kennedy

I made so many promises when I arrived here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tightening. Life around here isn't what I expected it to be. — Tahereh Mafi

But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be — Shelby Foote Shiloh

He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds. — Michael Connelly The Black Echo

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad? — Bret Easton Ellis Glamorama

The American dream was not supposed to look like this, and when men went off the war, too often other men came in the night to the bedroom at the back of the long, narrow trailers. In fact, I had lived there and had gone off to war, and someone took my place in the bed and took my young wife. But that was few wars ago, and so much has happened since, that the only lingering bitterness left is that the bastard also took my dog. — Nelson DeMille The General's...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more-the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys,...

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

The Republic cured me of the Republic.

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that...

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