"If you can't be direct, why be?"

-- Lily Tomlin

“Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer. . .I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.”
“Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If ***** is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?”
“I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.”
“How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.”
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

Source : Barack Obama's Remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2011.
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”

Source : 1977 Joseph Chamberlain.
“The style depends on the subject.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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