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		Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life. I understood suddenly why I hadn't had Nino, why Lila had had him. I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond the limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Ferrante 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damon Lindelof 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlyn Jenner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Miller 
			 
			
				Bad Brains  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. J. Liebling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Winwood Reade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Struthers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Stephen Cole Kleene 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hannu Rajaniemi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life. I understood suddenly why I hadn't had Nino, why Lila had had him. I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond the limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Ferrante