"I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it."

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Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

Padgett Powell

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“Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.”
“Love is many things none of them logical.”

Source : William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.”
“In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.”
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.”
“Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.”
“One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.”
“Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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