"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."

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David McCullough

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“Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live" (1975-), "Michael Sarrazin/Keith Jarrett, Gravity", www.imdb.com. 1978.
“The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work”
“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”
“There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.”
“When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
“I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.”
“After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.”

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