"Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me."

-- Mary Pierce

“One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs”
“The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.”
“I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Aug 19, 2011
“I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.”
“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”
“Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.”
“Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

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