"What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense."

-- Ivan Turgenev

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“People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.”
“The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.”
“We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.”
“I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a Terrible Towel.”

Source : "National Book Festival: 'Mayflower'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.
“Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 394), 1895.
“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”
“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”
“It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.”

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