"What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful."

-- Edward Dahlberg

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“Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.”
“The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”
“Have you seen the film Histoires D'AmÃ©rique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.”

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“Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?”
“Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.”
“America demands invention and innovation to succeed.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
“Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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