"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

-- Cecil Day-Lewis

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“Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.”
“Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.”

Source : "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.
“The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.”

Source : FaceBook post by Camilla Belle from Feb 16, 2012
“My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.”
“It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.”

Source : Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1910). “The Biography of a Boy”
“I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2010.
“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”
“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

Source : "Two-Way Ticket to Paradise', book review of Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva". The New York Times, August 29, 1975.

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