"I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words."

-- Elmore Leonard

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“The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
“I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.”

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“I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.”
“All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.”
“The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God - the God of Jesus Christ - and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others.”
“When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.”
“Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.”
“My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.”

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