"It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing."

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Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

Vijay Seshadri

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“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.”
“It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.”
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
“There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.405, Lulu Press, Inc
“This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.”
“We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.”

Source : Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company
“I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.”
“Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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