"I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading."

-- Maya Angelou

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“What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.”
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
“Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.”

Source : Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge
“The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have so that by the time the day ends, after 1,000 interactions, they're exhausted - and people like Bill Clinton who are extroverted - who get a little bit of energy from each interaction.”
“Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.”
“Money buys everything, even true love.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.
“To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.”

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