"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."

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Source : "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

Alberto Moravia

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“This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.”

Source : "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.
“One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.”
“A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.”

Source : Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company
“Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.”

Source : Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”
“Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.”
“I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.”
“Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.”
“Take your work seriously, but never yourself.”

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