"Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids."

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Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.27, Ballantine Books

Suzanne Brockmann

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“Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.”
“... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.”
“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”
“I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.”
“I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.”
“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”
“If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.”

Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.153

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