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21 " What's the plan for today?" I asked him. " Same thing we do every day. Try and take over the world." I stared at him for a second. " Was that a 'Pinky and the Brain' reference?" " Sure was." " I'm the Brain." He laughed and took another sip of coffee. " I wouldn't have it any other way." I nodded triumphantly and nibbled at my bagel. -Lacey & Camden "
22 " If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't. "
― Margaret Mitchell , Gone with the Wind
23 " When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar. "
24 " Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels. "
25 " The question of commonsense is always " what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. "
26 " Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away. The voyeurism and busybodyism that impel writers and readers of biography alike are obscured by an apparatus of scholarship designed to give the enterprise an appearance of banklike blandness and solidity. The biographer is portrayed almost as a kind of benefactor. He is seen as sacrificing years of his life to his task, tirelessly sitting in archives and libraries and patiently conducting interviews with witnesses. There is no length he will not go to, and the more his book reflects his industry the more the reader believes that he is having an elevating literary experience, rather than simply listening to backstairs gossip and reading other people’s mail. The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography’s status as a popular genre. The reader’s amazing tolerance (which he would extend to no novel written half as badly as most biographies) makes sense only when seen as a kind of collusion between him and the biographer in an excitingly forbidden undertaking: tiptoeing down the corridor together, to stand in front of the bedroom door and try to peep through the keyhole. "
― Janet Malcolm , The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
27 " Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. "