"Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument."

-- Cass Sunstein

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“Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?”
“The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.”
“You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.”
“The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.”
“You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. Â In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.”
“Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.”

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan
“If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.1930, Penguin UK
“I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.”

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