"It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all."

-- Diana Peterfreund

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“The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.”
“The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.”
“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”
“I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.”
“I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it”
“I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.”

Source : "Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words". Interview with Massimo Calabresi, content.time.com. September 14, 2002.
“You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.”
“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.”

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