Dave

“With that vote the 1960s took their final turn, not to the polarization of left and right--though during the NIxon years there were moments so divisive reasonable people feared that the nation was coming undone--but to a bitter, often brutal struggle between an administration determined to reconstruct the order the decade's upheavals had shattered and those forces the shattering had released: a struggle for the nation's future shaped by the enormous weight of aits past, as the rest of the sixties had been.”
― Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s

“Thanks also to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago White Sox, the Washington Capitals, the Tulane Green Wave, and, above all, Everton Football Club, for providing me with sporting narratives that accompany my existence like a joyous bass line. For all of them, glory is a precious, rare emotion. I appreciate that as a reflection of life itself. Never take a second for granted. Make memories while you still can.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“You need to know these people are malingerers...Ignore them. Make them small. Your work is big. Make your future big. Remember the Cod. That is all that matters.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls