"When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice."

-- Alice Mattison

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“At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.”
“It reminded me of what Dad said after every snailâ€™s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.â€œItâ€™s New York, people. Itâ€™s winter. We get snow. If you arenâ€™t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
“When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.”
“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”

Source : Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16
“There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!”

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“Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated over several centuries, which offered a new concept of social order, encompassing freedom in the only form suited to the modern world. Step by step, in practice and theory, the various sectors of human activity were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of coercive authority and given over to the voluntary action of self-regulating society.”
“IÂ do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe itâ€™s a free country.”

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