"I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist."

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Frederick Busch

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“Integrity expects integrity.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.277, Head of Zeus
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
“The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.”
“You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own â€” What are you when the rose is blown?”

Source : Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14
“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
“Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.”
“At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever better titles and working on interesting projects - or whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular - this be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself - for the next 20 years, and beyond.”
“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”

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