Quotations from Brainy Smurf 142

"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- )

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
--Margaret Halsey