"I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer."

-- Dennis Lehane

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“The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.36, Routledge
“The ego is a fascinating monster.”
“We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.”
“If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.”
“After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire careerâ€”in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdadâ€”watching the people within those borders burn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.”

Source : "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.
“You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.”
“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”

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