"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."

-- Carter G. Woodson

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“And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.”

Source : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
“You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.”
“There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.”
“I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.”
“When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.”
“I never miss a good chance to shut up”

Source : James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House
“It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.”
“It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.54

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