"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well."

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Mark Twain

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“My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.”
“No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.”
“Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.”
“A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.”
“Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.”
“Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.”
“As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the German Jew in his historical role, in his good as well as his bad light.”

Source : Martha Dodd (1939). “Through embassy eyes”, New York
“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”

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