"If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary."

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Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK

Sarah Churchwell

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“I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.”
“Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.”

Source : William Vaughn Moody, John Mattews Manly (1912). “The Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody: With an Introduction by John M. Manly ...”
“No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.”
“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
“After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.”
“Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.”

Source : 1951 I Am a Composer.
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
“I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.”

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