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Daniel Berrigan

"Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."

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"Anyone with any real blood in his or her veins cannot help being a fan. Being a true American and being a fan are synonymous."

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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

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"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap."
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"The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people."
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"It's not going to be easy to change things."
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"The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were."
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"I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live."
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