"It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.”

Source : Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.74
“I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.”
“I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Indiewire, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.
“Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.”

Source : "Pascal: 'I learned from the Hopkins fights'" by Brian Campbell, proxy.espn.com. January 15, 2014.
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
“When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.”
“Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.”
“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.100, ibooks

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