"Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?"

-- Eric Foner

#Dog Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.”
“Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.”
“But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other peopleâ€™s pain into something beautiful?”
“Sometimes you'll be on sets, and people will be fighting and there will be some nasty person that thinks they're the next Brad Pitt.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.”

Source : "Mrs. Harris Tells Court She Wanted Her Suicide To Be 'a Private Death'" by James Feron, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 1981.
“We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.”
“Velcro: what a rip-off.”
“In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.”

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