"As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors."

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Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

Judith Thurman

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“To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”
“The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.”

Source : Source: www.eunews.it
“Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.”
“I am a person who goes out without a purse.”

Source : "Sigourney Weaver Interview You Again". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.
“Thatâ€™s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I canâ€™t make it perfect. I canâ€™t keep it in a bottle, canâ€™t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and theyâ€™re making tremendous advances every day. Theyâ€™re winning the war against love. Itâ€™s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if thereâ€™s room for love in either of those scenarios.”
“I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.”
“To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.”

Source : "Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation". Book by Shirley MacLaine, January 1, 1989.
“It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.”

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