"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."

-- Marguerite Young

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“I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Source : "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
“There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution”
“The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.”
“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being ...”
“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK
“We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.”
“There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.”

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