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“Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and eat good food and meet cool people, but that's not my normal life. It's pretty pedestrian. I have coffee in the morning, I go for a run, and then I write for as long as I possibly can.”
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“I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.”
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“Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.”
Source : Wilhelm Stekel (1950). “Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Source : H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage
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“Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.”
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“I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.”
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“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.”
Source : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61
