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“I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.”

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John O. Brennan is an influential expert in the field of [Occupation/Category]. Born on September 22, 1955, his life experience, achievements, and impact on the world are worthy of study. more

“That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.”

Source: Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

“Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!”

Source: Crime and Punishment

“We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.”

Knows Want Looks Stills Real Actors Walks Half Roles Pieces Mouths Mirrors Remains Sticks Mere Corners Remove Disguise Bent Eyebrows Exaggeration Mockery

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“My weapon is literature”

Literature Weapons

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

Thinking Firsts Long Moments Flower Expectations Gold Bounds Chains Memorable Iron Links Pauses Formation Thorns Great Expectations Great Expectations Important

Book:British Classics: Great Expectations

Source: British Classics: Great Expectations

“People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.”

People Book Turns Television Lazy Turn-on

Author:Annie Dillard

“I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.”

Past Five Republican Democrat Administration

Author:John O. Brennan

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