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Safe from the Neighbors QUOTES

Safe from the Neighbors QUOTES

1 " It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day. "

― Steve Yarbrough , Safe from the Neighbors

2 " Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that. "

― Steve Yarbrough , Safe from the Neighbors

3 " At the age of twenty, I failed to grasp the difference between guilt, which can almost always be atoned for, and grief, which can only be borne. "

― Steve Yarbrough , Safe from the Neighbors

4 " IF THIS COUNTRY should ever reach the point,” the president was saying, while I sat on the floor with that bowl of popcorn between my legs, “where any man or group of men, by force or threat of force, could long defy the commands of our courts and Constitution, no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors. "

― Steve Yarbrough , Safe from the Neighbors