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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all. — Viggo Mortensen

Black ia the color that is no color at all.
Black is the color of a child's still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night - the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky. — Alexandra Bracken

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. — Baron De Montesquieu

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music. — Raheem Devaughn

I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I'd study the stars in their brilliant blazing, the diaphanous swath of the milk Way, the distant glow of Boston backlighting the clouds on the horizon as if they'd been drawn there in smudgy charcoal. I felt, perhaps for the first time, particularly American, embedded in American history, here at the nation's slender tip. Here our westering impulse, having flooded the continent and turned back, finds itself face to face with the originating Atlantic, November's chill, salt expanses, what Hart Crane called the "unfettered leewardings," here at the end of the world. — Mark Doty

The future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived. — Angel Phetheni

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. — Augustus William Hare

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

' ... he said you were way too damn obnoxious to be merely human, so you had to be some kind of divine messenger, and he figured he'd better do what you said quick so you'd go ahead and disappear.' — Maculategiraffe

The perfect storm of two kinds of crazy. That was us. — Jettie Woodruff

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox. — Tina Fey

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function. — Rudolph Ballentine

It was great spending the nights with him, but sometimes, she needed a little break from him and the her that she became around him. — Peter Murphy