"Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves."

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Source : "Lead time". Book by Garry Wills, 1983.

Garry Wills

#Children Quotes #Self Quotes #Politician Quotes

“Only weak men want women to be weak.”
“As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.”
“I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.”
“The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.”
“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.”
“The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.”

Source : Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.105, Faraaz Kazi
“There are no facts, only stories.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Harvey McGavin, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.
“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”

Source : Eric Ambler (2011). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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