"I think of my novels as entertainments."

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Stephen L. Carter

#Thinking Quotes #Entertainment Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.”
“Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”

Source : "The Great Speeches of Modern India". Book by Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 2011.
“The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.”

Source : "The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street". Harper's Magazine, April 2005.
“When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”
“Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.”

Source : 1975 On the Governor-General Sir John Kerr's action in dissolving the Australian Parliament,11 Nov. Whit l am lost the subsequent election.
“Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”

Source : Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc
“Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.”
“I donâ€™t believe in â€œlaying to restâ€ the past. There are wounds we wonâ€™t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.”

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