"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."

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Source : "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

Peter Straub

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!”

Source : "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.
“I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.”
“If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.”
“Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.”
“The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.”

Source : "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.
“The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Brown, John Banks (1795). “British Theatre: Barbarossa”, p.72
“With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.”
“The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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