"If you have to do it, you can do it."

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James M. Cain

#You Can Do It Quotes

“My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.”
“Art is a reflection on life. Life isnâ€™t something we can cut and fix. Itâ€™s always in a state of flux.”
“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”
“The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.”
“The leading cause of death is birth.”

Source : "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
“There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.”
“Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.”

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