"I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that's always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person."

-- Teddy Wayne

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“A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.”

Source : "Ray Price dead: Country music legend was 87", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2013.
“Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.”
“No I don't think that's possible. I think it...after 14 years under truth serum had I committed the crime I would have known it. There's got to be something that would... would click in my mind. I've had photo's of 21 of the victims and I've looked at them all over the years here and I've never recognized anyone of them.”
“The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!”
“Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?” Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears. “Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.”
“If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.”
“A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.”
“But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami - but the diamonds will keep me cool.”

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