"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

-- Susan Sontag

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“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.”
“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press
“I know the devil is working against me. I already know my mission and what I'm really here to do. People may not see it but he's been working overtime. He's not even able to mess with other artists because he's got so many demons around me.”
“My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.”
“If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.”
“The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.”
“I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.”

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