"[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him."

-- Charles R. Jackson

#Hands Quotes #Biting Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.”
“You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Routledge
“I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.”
“[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.”
“Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.”

Source : Song: To Ramona, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964
“Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.”
“We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.”

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