"Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality."

-- Romain Gary

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“I don't know the history of hating communism in America. I've always been interested in it, and I've thought about studying it in the past, but I've just looked into other topics first. That certainly sounds like a good topic that we could do on the show. I think it would be really interesting. We would just need to spend a lot of time researching it, getting into it, running down that topic. So I'll take that as a really good pitch for a future episode.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.”

Source : Will Hutton (2011). “The State We're In: (Revised Edition)”, p.242, Random House
“Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.”
“People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”
“I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldnâ€™t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.”
“In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.”
“When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.”
“When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.”

Source : Bill Amend (1997). “Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose”, p.24, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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