"Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men"

-- Rex Stout

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“I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.”
“Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves”
“Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience....”
“I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the worldâ€¦.because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.”
“The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.”
“Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.”

Source : "Armed Combat". Sounds Magazine Interview, July 17, 1982.
“If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”

Source : "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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