"I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels."

-- Kenneth Patchen

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“Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.”
“Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.”

Source : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton
“Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”
“War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. Itâ€™s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.”
“Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.”

Source : Mike Matheny, Jerry B. Jenkins (2015). “The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life”, p.155, Three Rivers Press
“At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.”
“Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.”

Source : "IGN Interview: The 4400's Jacqueline McKenzie". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 24, 2006.

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