"The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

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“Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?”
“Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.”
“I am sentimental,â€™ she said. â€˜I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”
“Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for 5 million murdered people and the guilt for the atrocities. But I see in this trial endless other things brought out and I have the feeling that in the shadow of the guilt of these murders the German people shall be considered guilty of everything, and in the shadow of this guilt the Americans, English, French, and especially the Russians will want to get rid of their own dirty linen.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 71), 2004.
“It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.”
“Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.”
“'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'”
“In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.”

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