"If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement."

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Clive James

#Book Quotes #Doe Quotes #Want Quotes

“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”
“In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.”
“I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.”
“The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.”
“The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.93
“I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.”
“Every cookie is a sugar cookie. A cookie without sugar is a cracker.”

Source : "Last Comic Standing". Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV, www.imdb.com.

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