"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."

-- Joseph Epstein

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“Itâ€™s as much a writerâ€™s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.”
“Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.”

Source : Source: www.sundaytimes.lk
“I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.”
“The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.”
“Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.”
“...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence....”

Source : "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.
“I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.”
“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.”

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