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I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

The bemused Brigadier shook his head. "You and that TARDIS.

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express ' 'Flashdance ' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

These "so thats," "becauses," and "whens" were like regulations; in decided to avoid them in order not to--

No false promises are made that if you read these pages, you will learn the formula for writing a million-dollar screenplay; in fact, the dirty little secret of screenwriting books is that anyone who promises such formulas is lying. There

Even a cigar company joined the rush to praise Steffens by naming a cigar after him and featuring his face on the box.

Elmer dedicated a book to Mike. Elmer, a

but rather inner identification with evil.

dialectical origins. This is not a book driven by a thesis that the author wants to prove but rather a work that emerged out of the give-and-take of many years of teaching and public speaking,

Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen (Organization of Former Members of the SS), known by the acronym ODESSA, appears to have been largely mythical.

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

old visions of an illiterate lay elite in the early Middle Ages have been overturned.

She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.

There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.

mental institutions, rural health clinics. Once, he met

For a Politeness Monitor, these responses seemed awfully terse and uncommunicative, but who was I to judge?

Even though we wrote ourselves out of the story; even though we cursed the voice; even though we crucified the Plot on the tree; even though we tried to make Him just a fact in our story, even THAT is a story within The Story.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said, 'okay, call it the God particle,' and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading'.

He got Laura Miles to hospital," said Sam.

In making my work meaningful to others, I had also made it compelling to myself. No longer was I just working on somebody else's problems. I was part of an intellectual enterprise with relatively well-defined goals, which might actually make a difference to humanity.

which had all the architectural grace of a maximum-security prison,

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.