"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.”
“As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.”
“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.”
“Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.”
“Among the games I did not develop myself, my most frequently played game is definitely "Doppelkopf," a traditional German card game; for more than 40 years now, I play it regularly with old school friends.”
“I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sally Bowles". "Cabaret", www.imdb.com. 1972.
“For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations - One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.”

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