"You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan."

-- Clarence W. Barron

#Support Quotes #Widows Quotes #Fields Quotes

“You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.”
“It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!”
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
“I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.”
“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.”
“It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.”
“Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.”
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.”

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