"Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death."

-- Donald Murray

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“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”
“In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.”
“When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.”
“My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.”
“I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.”
“I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.”
“If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.”

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