"An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers."

-- Denis Healey

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“If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,”
“I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.”
“I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.”
“I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent prose. I don't think great novels are necessarily composed of great prose, or that there's a correlation between beautiful prose and the quality of a work of fiction. A really good, interesting novel will often let a little ugliness get into its words - to create a certain effect, to leave the reader with a certain sense of disorientation.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If something goes wrong, donâ€™t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.”
“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?”

Source : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.
“Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.”

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