"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

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“Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.”
“The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasnâ€™t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press
“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?”
“Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.”
“I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1990). “Between Angels”, p.164, W. W. Norton & Company
“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.”
“Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.”

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