"People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."

-- Anatole Broyard

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“Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.”
“Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.”
“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.”
“I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.”
“True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.”
“My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.”
“Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and aethiest, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings ... we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives.”

Source : "The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels". Book by Thomas Cahill, 1998.

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