"The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent."

-- George W. Plunkitt

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“It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies. ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different.”
“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”
“All my friends I've known since I was really little.”
“Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.”
“Tell me a story of deep delight.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.267, LSU Press
“The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.”
“I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 15, 2012
“It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where an entire culture is doing one thing. It's not like all the kids in England are discovering the Stooges and the Ramones at the same time. All the kids in England are discovering every band that has ever existed. I can't imagine there being one huge cultural moment like there was in the past. Everything ends up being kind of postmodern.”

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