"If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."

-- Ray Bradbury

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“I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

Source : Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)
“Sneakers are not my thing.”
“No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.”
“Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.”
“We love the night and it's quiet.”

Source : Fitz James O'Brien (1889). “What was It?: And Other Stories”
“A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty... Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed... In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.”
“To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.”

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