"I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive."

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Philip Roth

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“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
“With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”
“As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."”
“We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.”
“The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.”
“The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.”
“When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.”

Source : R. T. Kendall, Joy Strang (2005). “By Love Transformed”, p.143, Charisma Media

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