"When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship."

-- Judy Blume

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.”
“I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.”
“It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.”
“[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.”
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books
“dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.”
“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"”
“The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.”

Source : "Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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