"I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession."

-- Ben Jonson

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“It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.”
“I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.”
“When God takes your straw, it isnâ€™t because he wants you to remain a slave. Itâ€™s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.”
“I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
“In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.”

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“If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”

Source : Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.
“I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.”
“If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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