"There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”
“You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.”
“Some of my fondest and most impressionable movie memories are from those early sci-fi and horror films. I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.”
“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”
“Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166”

Source : 1966 Briggflatts.
“It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”
“You cannot see me from where I look at myself”
“The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.”

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