"Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#War Quotes #Games Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi, they're pretty personality-less.”
“I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.”
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
“I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.”
“People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.”
“Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.”
“Guys don't use the word pretty enough. Like, hey Mike, did you get that shirt at the game? Looks really pretty on you.”

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