"An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them."

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Source : Matthew Gregory Lewis (1832). “The Monk ... Printed Verbatim from the First London Edition”, p.178

Matthew Gregory Lewis

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“I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.”
“Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.”
“If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.”
“She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.”
“Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'”
“I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.”
“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist â€” someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”

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