Sebastian Junger Quotes
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
Quotes to Explore
-
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
-
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
-
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
-
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
-
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
-
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
-
The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
-
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
-
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
-
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
-
I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.
-
In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.
-
I was even more country in my college-band days.
-
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
-
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
Charles B. Rangel -
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
