"We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?"

-- Walter Matthau

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“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.”
“Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.”
“NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.”
“If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?”
“They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”
“We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.”

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