"President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'"

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“Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.”
“It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.”
“If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.”
“You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.”
“I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.”
“You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin
“In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.”
“I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.”

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