"Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it"

-- Vaclav Havel

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“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.”
“The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.”
“Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.”

Source : Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing
“I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.”
“There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance.”
“I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.”
“Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.”
“Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.”

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