"I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer."

-- Elmore Leonard

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“We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.”

Source : "Bill Clinton, campaign strategists, Colo. Senate debate". Meet the Press Netcast, www.nbcnews.com.
“Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!”
“My mother was my greatest fan.”
“YouTube is a place for people to share their ideas. If by people you mean 13 year old girls and by ideas you mean how they love the Jonas Brothers.”
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press
“In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.”
“At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.”

Source : John Daniel (2012). “Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone”, p.136, Counterpoint
“The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.”

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