
“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
The Wide Window (2000)
“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”
Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
Inside Washington, March 6, 1993.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
“Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be”
Variant: Stop being who you were and become who you are.
Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 215.
“The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and… Reproduction”