"The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before."

-- Pierre Salinger

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“I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.”
“I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.”
“In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.”
“When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.”
“If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.”
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
“I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.”
“Never before have I imagined my life without himâ€”like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.”

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