"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."

-- Ted Rall

“A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.”
“Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.”

Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.
“There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.”
“The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.”
“I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.”
“First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.”

Source : MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”
“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 03, 2010
“I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.”

Source : Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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