"I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books."

-- Len Deighton

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.”
“Do you smell something burning or is it me?”
“I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.”

Source : "TJ Archived Feature Story: Issue #245 Fall 2002". TJ Interview, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.
“It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?”
“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.”
“They are bearcrawls ... a bearclaw is a donut”
“The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.”
“John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!”

Source : "David Miliband: 'You've punished us enough about Iraq'". Interview with Patrick Wintour, Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2010.

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