"Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life."

-- Mary Ann Glendon

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“It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.”

Source : John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood
“It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.”
“To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.”
“Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.”

Source : "This much I know: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.”
“I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to write essays. And that gave me the luxury to be able to go out and if it was lousy, I could just say, well the hell with that, I'll go to hear something else, or, I'll go tomorrow night; I as writing for a weekly.”
“No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.”
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”

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