"I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism."

-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?”
“I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me”
“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
“A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.”
“We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.”
“Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf
“For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.”
“If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.”

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