"The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more."

-- Alberto Manguel

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“A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.”
“I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.”
“Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.”

Source : Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown
“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
“I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now that one's done." I think that's why it feels like songs are really connected, and I like that. They're all worked on kind of like a little family.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Dont get discouraged from all the rejection.”
“And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.”

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