"I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters."

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James A. Michener

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“This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?”

Source : "Question Time dream team panel: From Katie Price to Joey Essex - the celebrities we want to see speak their mind" by Jessica Haworth, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2014.
“I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.”
“I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2013). “Here and Now: Poems”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
“Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.”
“By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”
“We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.”
“I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.”
“What happened, and what might have happened?”

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