"The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough that if you can only obtain the Donald rather than the Thomas, your book club will still be doing just fine."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Allen C. Guelzo

#Book Quotes #Enough Quotes #Book Club Quotes

“People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!”
“You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.”
“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
“I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.”
“Patrick Swayze was risk-taking - because he not only did a transvestite, but in Donnie Darko, he played a pedophile! Talk about a risky thing for a movie star, and he jumped right in. We even shot some of those video sequences of his character out on his ranch. I mean, he opened his heart and his ranch to us. He was just an awesome guy.”
“The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.”
“It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.”
“Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.”

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