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“[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.”
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“Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.”
Source : "David Carr, New York Times columnist, dies suddenly after collapsing in office" by Ben Doherty, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.
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“We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.”
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“I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.”
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“Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.”
Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.34, Penguin Books India
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“Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,”
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“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
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“I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”
Source : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt