"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."

-- Richard Russo

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“I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
“Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.”
“When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.”

Source : "Romola Garai brings modern sense to roles" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. November 26, 2012.
“I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.”
“I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.”
“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.”

Source : John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195
“Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (1985). “Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.”

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