"'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not."

-- Mark Helprin

#Party Quotes #Garden Quotes #Example Quotes

“The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?”
“Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.”
“Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life”
“All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.”
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”
“All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.”
“I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.”
“The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.”

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