"Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors."

Source : Richard Armour, William Shakespeare (1957). “Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject”, new American Library of Canada

Richard Armour

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“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”
“I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1998.
“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”

Source : "Women Are the Deciders, But for Which Candidate? An Interview With Pollster Celinda Lake". Interview with Martha Burk, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.
“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.”
“The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.”
“Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.”
“I am living. I remember you.”

Source : Marie Howe (1999). “What the Living Do: Poems”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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