"It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government."

-- Garry Wills

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“I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person.”
“A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist and the Murderer”, p.63, Vintage
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.”
“Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.”
“You need to know your craft.”
“The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.”

Source : "Audra McDonald: Shaping 'Bess' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 15, 2012.
“I personally have no need to make a strict definition of the medium. I am more interested in what can be done with comics than how it can be described, and if I want to remain truly open to the creative possibilities, the less I define the medium, the better.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.”

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