"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

-- John Irving

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“The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.”
“A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.”

Source : James Monroe, Daniel Preston, Marlena C. DeLong (2003). “The Papers of James Monroe: A documentary history of the presidential tours of James Monroe, 1817, 1818, 1819”, Greenwood Pub Group
“The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.”

Source : "Review/Jazz; Wynton Marsalis Takes a Long Look at Slavery". www.nytimes.com. April 04, 1994.
“I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.”
“whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
“Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.”

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