"All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one."

-- Irwin Shaw

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“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
“A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.”
“People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.”
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”
“In desperate position, you must fight.”
“To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1960). “Morning worship: and other poems”
“My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.”

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