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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
―Stephen King

Source/Notes:
The Shining (2007 edition), Introduction

“According as the man is, so must you humour him.”
―Jean Racine

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
―Marilyn Monroe

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 38

“It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”
―Rabindranath Tagore

“We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.”
―Peter Drucker

Source/Notes:
Part 1, Chapter 27, pg.364 - MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
―Louis Armstrong

“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”
―Emil Cioran

Source/Notes:
History & Utopia (1960)

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
―Stendhal

Source/Notes:
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
―Walt Disney

Source/Notes:
As quoted in The Story of Walt Disney (1957)

“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.”
―Thomas Paine

Source/Notes:
Common Sense (1776)

“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.”
―Michael Jordan

“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”
―C. S. Lewis

Source/Notes:
p. 36, unidentified edition - Mere Christianity (1952)

“In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
―Italo Calvino

Source/Notes:
The literature machine: essays (1987 edition), Secker and Warburg, 1987

“Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man. He forces one soil to nourish the products of another, one tree to bear the fruit of another. He mixes and confuses the climates, the elements, the seasons. He mutilates his dog, his horse, his slave. He turns everything upside down; he disfigures everything; he loves deformity, monsters. He wants nothing as nature made it, not even man; for him, man must be trained like a school horse; man must be fashioned in keeping with his fancy like a tree in his garden.”
―Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes:
Émile (1762), Book 1

“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.”
―Douglas MacArthur

Source/Notes:
Address to the Annual Stockholder's Meeting of the Sperry Rand Corporation, New York, 30 July 1957

“I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.”
―John F. Kennedy

Source/Notes:
Speech at Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland (29 June 1963)

“Pleasure is the last resort of the desperate. Happy people do not need to be amused.”
―Thomas Carlyle

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