"I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable"

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Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.11, Basic Books

Alfred Lansing

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“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
“Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.”
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”
“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
“I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court,”
“We come from ruins, but we're not ruined,”
“Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.”

Source : 'Chrestoleros' (1598) bk. 7, epigram 9
“I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'”

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