"Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin."

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Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

J. E. Buckrose

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“That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.”
“We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.”

Source : Robert W. Bly (2007). “The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells”, p.39, Holt Paperbacks
“No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.”
“All life is profoundly dependent on communication.”

Source : "Interview: What Is Design for Social Innovation?". Design for Social Innovation interview, unreasonable.is. January 13, 2015.
“There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.”
“As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.”
“I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.”
“My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.”

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