"I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four..."

-- Judy Blume

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“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

Source : "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.
“I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”
“A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.”
“To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.”

Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”
“Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.”
“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”
“I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.”
“Football without fans is nothing.”

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