"Heâ€™d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun heâ€™d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for oneâ€™s conscience to get in the way."

-- Hugh Howey

#Gun Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm excited about the aging process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.”
“The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.”
“I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.”
“One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.”
“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing Iâ€™ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and Iâ€™ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”
“I don't go to the cinema much.”
“Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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