"It's a wise thing to hold back."

-- Julian Clary

“Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.”

Source : "Madonna loves Christian Audigier's label, but will we?" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.
“One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesnâ€™t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.”
“What a privilege it is to be an American!”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1924). “Socrates: An Oration”
“I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.”
“Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.”
“It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.”
“It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.”
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”

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