"Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."

-- George Washington

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“We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.”

Source : Roger Angell (2015). “This Old Man: All in Pieces”, p.20, Anchor
“It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.”
“Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.”
“Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.”
“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”
“Let things taste of what they are.”
“But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.”
“[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.”

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