"Thirteen years I took on this last book."

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Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

Gay Talese

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I spent a week there one afternoon.”
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
“I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.”
“Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.”
“I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.”
“Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.”
“God bless America, land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night, with the light from above, From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home, God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!”

Source : "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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