"It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes."

-- David Bergen

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“My fans are incredible. They mean the world to me, I love them dearly.”
“I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.”
“It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.”
“Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.”

Source : Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.”
“We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.”

Source : Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”
“Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.”
“Remember itâ€™s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

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