"Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another."

-- Kay Boyle

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“Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (1981). “American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony”, p.262, Harvard University Press
“As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.”
“I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.”
“If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you look back at my story, it doesnâ€™t matter where you look, but Godâ€™s fingerprints are all over the place.”

Source : "The Jeremy Lin show lands in Toronto to face the Raptors". Press Conference, nationalpost.com. February 14, 2012.
“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting ***** or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap”
“Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.”
“Until someone else does... marry yourself”

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