"The book belongs to the author."

-- Maxwell Perkins

“These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.”
“It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.”
“The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.”
“Return to the root and you will find the meaning.”
“I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.”
“Washington's a cesspool of money.”
“The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children.”

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