"I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them."

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Source : E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.66, Random House

E. L. Doctorow

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“We had a delicious dinner of too much.”
“In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.”
“The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean
“In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”
“I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.”

Source : Hal Sutton during The Ryder Cup Matches Press Conference, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.
“The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.32
“At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.”

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