"Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days."

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Source : Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

Richard Wright

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“One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.”
“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”
“I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.”

Source : "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.
“The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.”
“If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.”
“When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.”
“The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.”
“In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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