"Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this."

-- Lord Acton

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“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”
“It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.”
“Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.”
“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”
“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
“I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”
“Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!”

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