"I'm in love with my animal friends."

-- Timothy Treadwell

“I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”
“One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.”
“In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.”

Source : Robert Henryson (1824). “Robene and Makyne: And The Testament of Cresseid”
“I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.”
“Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'”

Source : Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.
“In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.
“There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.
“In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.”

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