"Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home."

-- Robert Graves

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“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.”
“As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.”

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“You can't legislate stupidity.”
“The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history.”
“Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.”
“Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.”
“As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not get it. I feel like it's worth the ask.”

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“My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga. She tries so hard to understand me and my life. But she said to me once, "Leslie, if I live to be 105 I'll never understand this need you have to air your dirty laundry. Why can't you just whisper it to a therapist?!" She doesn't understand.”

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