"The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival."

-- Imelda Marcos

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“I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.”
“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.174, Open Road Media
“While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.”

Source : "Kyra Sedgwick Talks Loverboy and The Closer". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 21, 2006.
“Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit”
“Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111
“I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.”
“Bella: "I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Edward: "And I should feel sorry that you're not sorry, but I don't.”

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