"Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself."

-- Dashiell Hammett

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“After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.”
“There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.”
“The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.”

Source : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
“Oh my goodness, I hate camping. I am like Frida times 1,000. I have always been attracted to wilderness stories, Ã la the movie Badlands, when Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen are in the woods on the lam - maybe because it scares me a little.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”

Source : Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.”
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'”
“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”

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