"Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video."

-- Peter York

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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.”
“I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Here's the thing: I'm not in shape.”
“We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.”
“The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.”
“We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.”

Source : "James Lee Burke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2012.
“I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.”

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