"A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!"

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.”

Source : Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books
“Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.”
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”
“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”
“A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.”
“I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now”
“Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.”
“Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.”

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