"I want to write for history, not for the moment."

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Source : "The dangerous new Obama book" by Glenn Thrush and Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. May 3, 2012.

David Maraniss

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“Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.”
“Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh heartily.”
“Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.”
“Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.”
“Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.”

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“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”
“I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness and well-being. Self-preservation is the first law. I must start trying to obey the law.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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