"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."

-- Nelson Algren

#Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have not seen Al Gore's movie.”
“Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.”
“Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air.”
“The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.”
“Don't do something that you'll regret later.”
“The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.362, Princeton University Press
“To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.”
“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”

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