"Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor."

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Source : David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.90, Penguin

David Benioff

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“Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.”

Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
“Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.”
“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.”

Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. July 29, 1996.
“Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.”
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”
“Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.”
“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”

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