"People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid."

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Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

Armand Hammer

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“Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.”
“It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.”
“The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.”
“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”
“As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.
“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”

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