"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work."

-- Sara Paretsky

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“Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.”
“I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.”
“I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.”

Source : "The With Leather Interview: ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper Talks About The Klondike Challenge And More". Interview with Ashley Burns, uproxx.com. September 13, 2013.
“I dreamed there would be a time to come together to "build out the Hope Reformation that would bring certain shifts to the leaders in the Body of Christ." In this dream, I saw the buildings of revival and prayer and there was some divine activity that was good and needed and foundational for what God was doing on the earth.”
“You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.”
“So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.”
“If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.”

Source : Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.54, Courier Corporation
“Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?”

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