"Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason."

-- Adam Gopnik

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“Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.”
“Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.”
“I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.”
“Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.”
“As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.”
“When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."”
“At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
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