Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.

Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 January 25, 2017) was an American writer who was a prominent contributor to Luso-American literature.

Quotes

Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)

  • Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.
    • Page 125
  • Chance dictates everything.
    • Page 176

Through a Portagee Gate (2004)

  • He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
    His life has been wiped clean off the board.
    But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.
    • Prologue

Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)

  • "The Portuguese are the unknown people. We are lost in this vast country. Nobody knows we are here. To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean. It sinks beneath the waves and vanishes without a trace."
    • Page 101
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