"There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't."

-- Alice Mattison

#People Quotes #Desire Quotes #Knows Quotes

“I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.”

Source : "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.”
“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?”
“For as long as I can remember I've had memories.”
“I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
“My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.”
“Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.”
“I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.”

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