"You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time."

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William Landay

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“The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.”
“You know I told the Lord, "Why can't I just move in healing and forget talking about all that other stuff." He said: " Because, Todd, you've got to get the people to believe in the angel". I said, "Why do I want people to believe in the angel. Isn't it about the people believing in Jesus?" He said, "The people already believe in Jesus but the church doesn't believe in the supernatural."”
“You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.”
“It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.”
“If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.”

Source : "The Replacement". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2008.
“I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.”
“The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.”

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