"Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like."

-- Alice Mattison

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“The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.”

Source : Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide
“In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.”
“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”
“A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.”
“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”
“Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.”
“I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.”
“The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.”

Source : "Peace 1996-2000". Book by Irwin Abrams, 2005.

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