"I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet."

-- Francois Mauriac

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“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.
“I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.”

Source : William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer
“I will eat grandfather for dinner.”
“The love of power excludes all others.”

Source : "I protagonisti" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, (p. 265), 1976.
“Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1960). “The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre”
“I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.”
“Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.”

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