"Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms."

-- William E. Gladstone

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“It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.”
“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage
“I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she's easy then what does that say about me?”
“I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.”
“The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.”
“I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.”
“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”
“I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.”

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