"Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration."

-- Roald Dahl

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“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”
“Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.”
“God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.”
“If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.”

Source : "Brett Favre Has His Say 'On The Record" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.
“Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.”
“A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.”
“I like to stay fit by being generally active.”
“Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.”

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