"Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'"

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Elmore Leonard

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“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”
“First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...”

Source : "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.
“We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.”
“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.244, Univ of California Press
“I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.”
“The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.”
“It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.”
“Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.”

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