"After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything."

-- Felix Frankfurter

#Election Quotes #States Quotes #Propensity Quotes

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”

Source : Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr
“Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.”
“I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”
“When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.”
“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,”
“Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.”
“I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.”
“No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

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