"You're never fully dressed without a smile."

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Source : Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin (1977). “Annie: Libretto/vocal Book”

Martin Charnin

“If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.
“We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.”
“This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.”
“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.”
“Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.”
“Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.”
“We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.”
“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”

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