"I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.”

Source : Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.70
“Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.119, South End Press
“I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.”

Source : "Interview With Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.
“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”
“I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.”
“The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.”
“The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.”

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