"My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse."

-- Harper Lee

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“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
“I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.”

Source : "Boehner: Sometimes I'm 'Gestapo'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. January 24, 2014.
“After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.”
“When I stand at the top of the Champs-ElysÃ©es, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.”
“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”
“The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.”
“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.”
“It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.”

Source : ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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