"Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium."

-- Philip Guedalla

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“Violence doesn't equal strength.”
“Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.”
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.”
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"”

Source : "Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas, (p. 172), 2006.
“If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?”
“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”
“The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.”
“I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before they make another one. So that means that they hear the tail of the sound. Because of the reverberation, there's always more to the sound than just the sound.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

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