Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when … - Carl Hiaasen

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The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Carl Hiaasen

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

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Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

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I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned.

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Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

Boring, Greatest, Sin, Writer

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

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Susanne Katherina Langer

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

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John Maynard Keynes

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U. S. A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U. S. A.

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Richard Dreyfuss

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country. . . if we don't, someone else will run our country.

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Kristen Bell

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

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St. Jerome

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

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