"I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored."

-- Mark Twain

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“The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it turns us into impulsive sociopaths and we lose those very skills. If you're in the military, you gain power by forging strong ties in your comrades. And then the irony is that once we feel powerful and we are taken with our own success, we ignore the skills that got us power in the first place.”

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“It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.”
“If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.”
“Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.”
“Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.”
“When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.”

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