"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

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“Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.”
“Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.”
“Donald Trump, I'm not afraid of you.”
“What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!”

Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “When Worlds Collide”, p.47, Macmillan
“I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.”
“The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.”
“Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.”
“Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.”

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