"Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Harry Truman Quotes

“I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
“All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.”
“Consciousness is something we do.”
“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.”
“I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through.”
“Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.”
“It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!”

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