"On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away."

-- V. S. Pritchett

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“All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.”
“As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”
“If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.”
“It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”
“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.”
“Hes gone. Hes just gone.”
“It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.”

Source : Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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