"My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life."

-- David James Duncan

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“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who havenâ€™t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who havenâ€™t the slightest idea what it is. â€¦ Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.”
“Sadly, this problem of ***** use is not isolated to baseball.”
“But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.”

Source : Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”
“This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.”
“Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.”
“I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.”

Source : "Cedric The Entertainer Talks 'The Soul Man'". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 20, 2012.
“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.”

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