"All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us."

-- Mary Jo Salter

#Wonderful Quotes

“Politics is a good thing!”

Source : Larry Sabato (2002). “Overtime!: The Election 2000 Thriller”, Longman Publishing Group
“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”
“Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”
“Arm chair warriors often fail.”
“I don't need bodyguards.”
“All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.”
“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”
“If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.”

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