"I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones."

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Source : Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.467, Penguin

Tad Williams

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“The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.”

Source : J. C. Watts delivers the Republican Party response to President Bill Clinton's "State of the Union" Address, February 4, 1997.
“Success makes you less intimidated by things.”
“I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.”
“And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.”
“The more I know about men the more I like dogs.”
“I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.”
“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”

Source : Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.”

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