"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."

-- Donald E. Westlake

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“Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.”
“The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have a discussion about the war that doesn't turn into a discussion about one political side or the other. I wanted to reach out and talk to people about it through fiction, the way a narrative can draw someone in and ask them those questions.”
“For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.”

Source : "The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot". Volume One,
“My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.”
“I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.”
“I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.”
“I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship”

Source : Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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