"I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger."

-- John Steinbeck

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“To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.”
“My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think theyâ€™re misunderstood. I donâ€™t think people realize how kind New York people are.”
“You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true”
“New York ladies all look immaculate.”
“I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.”
“I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.”
“Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.”

Source : "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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