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“To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.”
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“Lawyers are natural politicians.”
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“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.”
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“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
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“Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!”
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“My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.”
Source : "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014. 
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“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”
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“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats”
Source : Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart
