"A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes."

-- Hugh Sidey

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“Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.”
“For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.”
“Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1996). “Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.”
“Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.”

Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1983). “The Betrothed”, p.54, Penguin UK
“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”
“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”
“Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.”

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