"Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television."

-- Maria Semple

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“Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.”
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
“People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.”
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”

Source : «At The Movies With David & Sarah» by David Sedaris, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.”
“A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.”

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