"I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself."

-- Chath Piersath

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“In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.”

Source : Pluck and Luck (1925)
“Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you”
“The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.”
“I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.”
“I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.”
“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.”

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