"With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time."

-- Ronald Steel

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“I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.”

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“Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.”
“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]”
“I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.”
“Communists are the last optimists.”
“A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.”
“the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.”
“I much prefer to watch actors and writers create "humanizing" moments for characters. In a drama, "humanizing" is far more impactful and powerful than "redeeming."”

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