"Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to."

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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

Niall Ferguson

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“Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”
“I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.”
“[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.”
“A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.”
“Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing
“As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.”
“If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''”

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