"The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent."

-- Eustace Budgell

“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.390, Simon and Schuster
“What is man but his passion?”
“After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.”

Source : Twitter post from May 31, 2013
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
“I think the story only really comes alive on the set.”
“All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.”
“There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

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