"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."

-- Alexander Graham Bell

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“A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.”
“I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.”
“Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.”
“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.”
“[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.”

Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.96, Modern Library
“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits”

Source : Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”
“My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.”
“Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.”

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