"As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur."

-- David Baldacci

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“The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.”
“Death is a slave's freedom.”
“Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.”
“I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.”
“To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.”

Source : Erie Times, SportsWeek, March 3, 1986.
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafÃ©s, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.”
“For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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