"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."

-- Lytton Strachey

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“there's no doctor like meat and drink ...”
“My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.”
“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.”
“The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediahâ€™s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality inÂ OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes the myth of liberal tolerance as she relates her interactions with liberals in everyday life. This narrative, interlaced with commentary and impressions, gives us insight into liberals that books merely about abstract principles do not capture. A fascinating read.”
“The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.”

Source : "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.
“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.”
“Donâ€™t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I donâ€™t want them to read anything into it. But if you want to say that I laughed, I think that would be a good answer.”

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