"It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah."

-- Anita Diament

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“I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.”
“There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.”
“I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.”
“You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.”
“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

Source : Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”
“I was a very, very good congressman.”
“What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.”
“Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.”

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