"A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all."

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Source : 'Blue Skies, Brown Studies' (1961) 'From a Writer's Notebook'

William Sansom

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“Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
“Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?”
“Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person”
“Everyday people don't understand what he did for everybody and anybody who wore a Twins jersey.”
“Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.”
“The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.”
“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.”
“I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.”

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