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		One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Dean Myers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tatiana Maslany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm-Jamal Warner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Lasch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrew Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Twain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marguerite Duras 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		War is 90% information. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Napoleon Bonaparte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Dean Myers