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“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
― John F. Kennedy

“What?”
― Richard Nixon

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
― Richard Nixon

“I would have made a good pope.”
― Richard Nixon

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”
― Stephen King

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
― Frank Zappa

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft