"Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution."

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Source : William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8

William Hamilton Maxwell

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“Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it”
“I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.”
“Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.”
“I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.”
“Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.”
“I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.”
“Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.”

Source : "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.
“Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.”

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