"People are just fascinated by assassinations."

-- Louis Stokes

“I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.”
“I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Measure your life in love.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joanne Jefferson". "Rent", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”
“I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.”

Source : Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
“The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hourâ€¦.”

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