"I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized."

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Source : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing

Rafael Sabatini

“Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.”
“How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.411, Penguin
“Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.”
“In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.”
“I need to say what's in my heart, and you call it a style”
“All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.”
“There is nothing like practice.”
“I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.”

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