"Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things."

-- Michael Cunningham

#War Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.”
“I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.”
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”
“We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.”
“People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.”

Source : "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.
“My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the reality is that I enjoy spending each second with him. He is not just my husband - he is my rock and my very best friend!”

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