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Walter M. Miller, Jr.

"Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, Americaâ€”burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion."

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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“But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.524, Random House
“Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.”
“I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.”

Source : "Patti Hansen on Keith, Drugs & Rock 'n' roll". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 22, 2011.
“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.”

Source : Details Magazine Interview, www.mickfleetwoodofficial.com. August 21, 2014.
“Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.”
“When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

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