"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

-- Norman MacCaig

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“The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.”
“The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.”

Source : Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”
“Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”
“I think all of us in the pursuit of more perfect version of the truth and the story need to reckon with what we bring to the story, and I think that I'm confronting that in a very real way everyday. I'm extremely proud of who I am and it's nice to see it celebrated, but if someone were to ask me to list in order the biography, you know journalist comes first.”
“Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun”

Source : Tahar Ben Jelloun (1987). “The sand child”, Harcourt
“Are you any relation to your brother Marv?”
“Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
“I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.”

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