"I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me."

-- Karl Marlantes

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.”
“I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.”
“There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.”
“Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”

Source : "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.
“And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.”
“The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.”
“Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.”
“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”

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