"I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes."

-- Jacqueline Briskin

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“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
“It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.”
“There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than theÂ character, competence, and integrity of its youth.”

Source : Urie Bronfenbrenner (1996). “The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

Source : "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.
“Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.”
“A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.”
“I'm working on the intricacies ofÂ details of maneuvers that he stillÂ doesn't even know the names of.”
“My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.”

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