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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the... Richard Wright
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. Gavyn Davies
David Attenborough quote: "I'm not in politics."
I'm not in politics. David Attenborough
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered. Ivan Turgenev
Angela Carter quote: "Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody."
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Angela Carter
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. Gene Simmons
Thomas Szasz quote: "In the past, men created witches: now they create mental..."
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. Thomas Szasz
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy. Juice Newton
Billy Higgins quote: "I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do."
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do. Billy Higgins
I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care. Harvey Weinstein
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. David Ogden Stiers
I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are. Ahmed Chalabi
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world. Jenny Shipley
Dan Brown quote: "Nobody tells you what you can and can't do."
Nobody tells you what you can and can't do. Dan Brown
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. Fulton J. Sheen