"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Enjoy Life Quotes

“The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.”
“I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?”
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”

Source : Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA
“I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.”
“Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.”
“The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.”
“Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'”
“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.”

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