"I once started a detective story to make moneyÂ—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!"

-- Mary McCarthy

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“Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.”
“That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.”
“I'm not necessarily one to be remembered as a great, great speaker in wrestling, but I want to share my feelings about the people who have influenced me over the course of my career.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.”

Source : "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
“What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.”
“Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.”

Source : "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. Augsut 28, 2009.
“Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.”

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