"Say what you want to, but I know it was," Terri says. "It may sound crazy to you, but it's true just the same. People are different, Mel. Sure, sometimes he may have acted crazy. Okay. But but he loved me. In his own way maybe, but he loved me. There was love there, Mel. Don't say there wasn't."
Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
At the begging of the war in 1861, Grant, who had just been promoted to Brigadier General, was not an impressive looking soldier. When he showed up in Cairo, Illinois, on September 2, 1961, no one was there to greet him. No one knew anything about his except that he had a fondness for whiskey. He was shoer, alight, and stoop-shouldered. His beard needed trimming; he was 5'8" and weighed a mere 130 lbs.
Donald L. Miller - Vicksburg, p. 12
A 24-year-old young man who was generous with his time and his treasure, especially for children, is fighting for his life. How do we make sense such a thing? How do we understand it? There isn’t any way.
-Sportswriter Phillip Marshall in Auburn Undercover
In sum, America's Constitution was far more democratic and geostrategic than we have been taught by twentieth-century neo-Beardian and Madisonian myth makers. The document's deep power structure, sadly, was also skewed toward slavery than many mainstream scholars have been willing to admit. America's Constitution was not truly Madisonian; it was Washingtonian and proto-Jacksonian.
-Akhil Reed Amar
Hemingway's Robert Cohn married the first girl who was nice to him. A familiar enough story.
Ernest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises
Just try and take away my paper day book.
The United States has always been an empire. (From Myth America)
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