"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."

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Source : 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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“I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.”
“Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.”
“people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.”
“The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.”

Source : Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.
“I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.”
“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.”
“The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.”
“Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.”

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