"All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time."

-- Robert Penn Warren

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“My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.”
“What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?”

Source : Naomi Alderman (2012). “The Liars' Gospel”, p.123, Penguin UK
“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.”
“It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.”
“I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.”
“We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would ***** it, it seems quite otherwise.”
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”

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