"...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left"

-- John Banville

“writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.”
“Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.”
“We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other”
“American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.”
“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

Source : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
“Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.”
“It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.”
“I might have faults but I'm not a big head.”

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