"Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it."

-- Philip Roth

#Literature Quotes #Mess Quotes

“I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.”
“Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.”
“I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.”
“Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.”
“After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.”
“Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.”

Source : J. B. Bernstein (2014). “Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.”

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