"One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Novelists Quotes

“After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.”
“I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.”
“All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (2009). “The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series”
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
“Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.”
“If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.”
“The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.”

Source : Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag
“You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.”

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