"People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious."

-- Warren Zevon

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“The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.”
“I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.”
“In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.”
“Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.”
“I saw several actresses play the part. I did not in fact, as far as I know, do anything that any of the other actresses did. I don't think actresses do that. I think that what we do is we see a role as a role, we don't see it as a person. We look at the role and think, 'What can I, as an actor, bring to that part?”
“She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.134, Penguin
“This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.”
“Love is eternal for as long as it lasts.”

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