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“The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.”
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“When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.”
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“I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.”
Source : "Gandolfini Tires of Sopranos' Violence", abcnews.go.com. 
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“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
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“Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.”
Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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“There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet”
Source : Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013
