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		The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Leon Uris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Robertson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Madeline Carroll 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				M. J. Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Landon Donovan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wendy O. Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Robertson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paul Gauguin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Doris Lessing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabrielle Bernstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Maya Angelou 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Leon Uris